Anchors
Maurice DuBois
Award-winning anchor Maurice DuBois co-anchors "CBS 2 News This Morning" weekdays from 5-7 a.m. along with Kate Sullivan. He joined WCBS-TV in September 2004.
At CBS News, he substitutes as news anchor for the weekend editions of "The CBS Evening News" and "The Saturday Early Show."
A Long Island native, DuBois spent seven years at WNBC-TV and co-anchored "Today in New York" before joining WCBS-TV. He also anchored many live breaking news events and hosted numerous specials on topics ranging from kids and violence, to parades and telethons. At NBC News, he substituted as news anchor for "Today" and "Weekend Today," and filled-in as co-host of "Weekend Today." He also reported for "Dateline NBC" and substituted as news anchor at MSNBC and NBC News at Sunrise.
While at WNBC-TV, DuBois also hosted "Four Stories," a magazine featuring community heroes; he also hosted special programming for Court-TV called "Mind over Media," for students to understand media images.
Previously, DuBois was an anchor/reporter for WFLD-TV in Chicago and KCRA-TV in Sacramento. He began his career in 1987 at KING-TV in Seattle as a desk assistant before getting his first reporting assignment at the station. He has gone on to cover everything from local news to national political conventions, to AIDS in South Africa, to witnessing a double execution, to the death of Pope John Paul II, and the installation of Pope Benedict XVI.
DuBois has won several journalism and community awards, including four Emmys. The Associated Press and the Chicago and New York Associations of Black Journalists, from whom he received a Trailblazer Award, have also recognized him. He is involved in a wide range of community organizations, and serves on the Board of Directors for the Northside Center for Child Development.
DuBois is the recipient of Honorary PhDs from Seton Hall University and Medgar Evers College. He earned his BS in Journalism from Northwestern University. He and his wife live in Manhattan.