Anchors
Dana Tyler
Dana Tyler co-anchors CBS 2 News at 6 PM weekdays with Don Dahler. She joined WCBS-TV in 1990 as weekend co-anchor and reporter.
An integral part of the CBS 2 news team for nearly 19 years, Tyler has received numerous honors. In 2008, she received an honorary Doctorate of Letters degree from St. John's University at the Staten Island campus commencement. In 2007, Tyler of was honored by McDonald's in its annual salute to Black Broadcast Legends. In 2006, she received a New York Association of Black Journalists Award for her reporting on "The Color Purple". In 2003, Tyler received Emmy Awards for Coverage of an Instant Breaking News Story for anchoring the "New York City Blackout" and for Outstanding Single Newscast, "CBS 2 News at 11: City Hall Shooting." In 1996, Tyler received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Newscast for anchoring the station's coverage of the "New York City Subway Firebombing." She has also received numerous Emmy nominations for her work.
In addition to anchoring, Tyler contributes as host and reporter for "Eye on New York", a half-hour weekly community affairs program on CBS 2. With an affinity to the arts, Tyler reports on exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as well as on Broadway theatre productions. She has also hosted annual specials including "CBS 2 at Tony's", "CBS 2 at the Met", and the "Tunnel to Towers Run".
Tyler began her broadcasting career as an intern at WCOL Radio and WBNS-TV, the CBS affiliate in Columbus, Ohio. She was a general assignment reporter and anchor for WBNS and received an Emmy Award as Outstanding Anchor for her work on the popular "Heart of Ohio" broadcasts.
After several years as a classroom volunteer, Tyler is a member of the Board of Trustees of Learning Leaders, the 15,000-member volunteer organization dedicated to New York City's 1.1 million public school students. She also participates in station-sponsored events such as the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation's "Walk to Cure Diabetes" and the Susan G. Komen "Race for the Cure" to raise awareness for fighting breast cancer.
Tyler and the late Reggie Harris became the first African-American anchor team in the New York market on WCBS-TV in 1990. She is also honored to celebrate her great-grandfather's place in history. Ralph Waldo Tyler was a newspaper reporter and editor in Columbus, Ohio and the first accredited African-American war correspondent to report on the activities of African-American soldiers stationed overseas during World War I.
In 2007, Tyler was honored with the Distinguished Alumni Award from her alma mater, Worthington High School in Ohio. In 2001, she was honored with the Alumni Award for Distinguished Service by Boston University's School of Management from which she graduated with a Bachelor's degree in marketing and broadcast journalism.
