Vladimir Duthiers Biography
Vladimir Duthiers is an award winning journalist currently working as a feature host of “CBS Mornings” and is part of the team that delivers the first look at the day’s top stories. Duthiers also serves as anchor for CBS News 24/7. His work features on the “CBS Evening News,” “CBS Sunday Morning,” “48 Hours,” “CBS Mornings” and all CBS News platforms. He joined the network in 2014.
Vladimir Duthiers Career
Duthiers is a Peabody Award and Emmy Award-winning journalist and has covered a wide range of breaking and feature stories since joining CBS News in 2014. In addition, he spent several months covering the protests against police in the aftermath of a White police officer shooting an unarmed African American man in Ferguson, Missouri. Duthiers also spent several weeks reporting on the police manhunt for Eric Matthew Frein, who allegedly killed a Pennsylvania State Police officer. Furthermore, he’s been embedded with the USAF in South Korea and Guam, flew a training mission in the back seat of an F-16 Viper miles from the DMZ separating North Korea and South Korea, and interviewed the commander of US Pacific Command, Admiral Harry Harrison. He also flew with the U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels.
Moreover, his reporting has taken him around the world. In November 2015, Duthiers explored the roots of Muslim extremism in the volatile suburbs of Paris and Brussels in the aftermath of the coordinated terrorist attacks in France that killed 130 people. This was the first documentary project for the CBS News Reports docuseries. He was also nominated for an SPJ Sigma Delta Chi Award for his profile on international basketball star Sebastien Bellin’s remarkable eight-month journey of recovery after being nearly killed in the attack in Brussels, Belgium, in March 2016. Additionally, Duthiers has traveled to Brazil’s Amazon jungle to report on how deforestation contributes to climate change and has reported from Haiti in numerous occasions from interviewing several presidents of the republic to the traveling to the epicenter of the 2020 earthquake.
In 2016, he anchored CBS News Streaming’s live coverage of the 2016 Republican and Democratic conventions and every debate between former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
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In addition, Duthiers has interviewed several high-profile politicians including former President Donald Trump and former President Bill Clinton; Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the late Senator John McCain, Senators Ted Cruz, Senator Cory Booker, Senator Bernie Sanders and former FBI Director James Comey. Furthermore, he has also interviewed business leaders including JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Duthiers has also interviewed basketball legend Kareem Abdul Jabbar as well as acclaimed celebrities and artists such as Oprah Winfrey, Harry Belafonte, Slash, Dave Grohl, Lin Manuel Miranda, Eddie Redmayne, Carrie Fisher, Billy Crystal, Trevor Noah, Aretha Franklin, Tarji P. Henson, Alicia Keys, Sir Patrick Stewart, Baz Luhrmann and Cher. He was part of CBS News’ special coverage of the royal wedding between Prince Harry and Meghan Markle and the funeral of HRM Queen Elizabeth II in London.
Prior to joining CBS News, Duthiers was an international correspondent at CNN, based in Lagos, Nigeria. His work there was recognized with a Peabody Award for his reporting on the more than 200 girls kidnapped from their school in Northeastern Nigeria by the Islamist terror group Boko Haram. During his assignment in Nigeria, Duthiers reported extensively on the terrorist activities of Boko Haram. Furthermore, he covered the ongoing military intervention in Mali, as well as the terrorist attack on the Amenas gas plant in Algeria, the trial and sentencing of the former Liberian warlord Charles Taylor at the ICC in Sierra Leone, the crash of Dana Air Flight 992, and President Barack Obama’s visit to Senegal. Duthiers also reported from the Middle East on the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, from the streets of Bangkok during Thailand’s political turmoil, and the birth of the royal baby Prince George in July 2013.
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He began his journalism career at CNN in 2009 as a production assistant on the news program “Amanpour” before going on to serve as an associate producer for “Anderson Cooper 360°.” Duthiers was among the first journalists to arrive in Haiti to cover the 2010 earthquake and was part of the team that won two Emmy Awards for their coverage.
Before his career in journalism, he spent 18 years in the investment management industry, most recently as a managing director at an investment company, where he led global investment initiatives for clients based in 21 countries.
He was born and raised in New York, the son of Haitian immigrants of partial French descent. Duthiers is fluent in French and Haitian Creole. He also has partial French-Chinese ancestry, and speaks Mandarin Chinese fluently. Duthiers graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science from the University of Rhode Island in 1991. He also holds a Master of Science Degree in Broadcast Journalism from Columbia University. In 2017, Duthiers was awarded Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa by the university of Rhode Island.
Vladimir Duthiers Age
Duthiers was born Vladimir Albert Duthiers in New York on 21 December, 1969 and is now 55 years old as of 2024.
Vladimir Duthiers Height
He stands at an approximate height of 5 feet 9 inches (1.76m) tall.
Vladimir Duthiers Education
Duthiers graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science from the University of Rhode Island in 1991. He also holds a Master of Science Degree in Journalism from Columbia University. In 2017, Duthiers was awarded Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa by the university of Rhode Island.
Vladimir Duthiers Family
He was born and raised in New York, the son of Haitian immigrants of partial French descent. Duthiers is fluent in French and Haitian Creole. He also has partial French-Chinese ancestry, and speaks Mandarin Chinese fluently.
Vladimir Duthiers Wife
Duthiers tied the knot with his wife, Marian Wang in September, 2020. She is a senior news producer for Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
Vladimir Duthiers Children
He is a father of one child, a daughter born in January 2023.
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