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Laura Diaz is a Southern California newscaster on KTTV Fox 11 in Los Angeles. She anchors the 5pm newscast on Studio 11 LA. Diaz began working for the Fox station in May 2012. A Southern California native and first-generation Mexican-American, Diaz had served as solo anchor of the weekday editions of CBS2 News at 6 pm since April 2010, until she left the station. She produced and hosted some "Eye on Our Community" specials for CBS2. Prior to that, Ms. Diaz〔(Diaz at IMDb )〕 was the lead anchor at CBS2 and ABC7 in Los Angeles. She was the first Mexican-American to hold a lead anchor position at a Southern California English-language television station. ==Early life and career== Diaz is a native of Southern California, and a first generation Mexican American. She was born in Santa Paula, California, a small community in Ventura County. Her family moved to the Santa Clarita Valley when she was four years old. Diaz graduated from Hart High School before moving to San Luis Obispo, California to attend California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly SLO) where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. Her first job in television was at KSBY in San Luis Obispo followed by one at KFSN in Fresno, California. Laura Diaz returned to Southern California in 1983 as a reporter for KABC-TV at the station's bureau in Orange County. She covered several major stories as a reporter at KABC-TV including the 1986 Los Angeles Central Library Fire, the 1992 Los Angeles Riots and the Northridge earthquake in 1994. In 1985, she began working as a weekend anchor and three years later, she began anchoring KABC-TV'S 6 pm weekday evening newscast. In 1997, she was named anchor for the station's 5 pm and 11 pm newscasts. This promotion made her the first female Hispanic lead anchor at an English language television station in Los Angeles. Diaz joined KCBS-TV in September 2002 as co-anchor of the CBS 2 News at 5 and 11 pm〔http://cbs2.com/bios/Laura.Diaz.cbs.9.541115.html〕 with Harold Greene and in 2004 Paul Magers joined her as co-anchor. Diaz was also one of the original hosts of the groundbreaking ''Vista L.A.'' on KABC-TV, one of the first public affairs program in Southern California to serve the English speaking Latino audience in the region. That program won the coveted Imagen Award twice while she was co-host. Her work on ''Vista L.A.'' also won three local Emmy Awards. In August 2011 Laura Diaz won a third Imagen award when "Eye on Our Community" was selected as Best Local Informational Program. Laura Diaz (anchor, journalist, and producer) is a fourteen-time Emmy Award winner. Laura Diaz joined the FOX L.A. weekend news broadcasts alongside FOX news anchor Susan Hirasuna starting May 2012. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Laura Diaz (TV anchor)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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