St. John's News

Dana Tyler co-anchors CBS 2 News at Noon and 6 PM weekdays with Jim Rosenfield. She joined WCBS-TV in 1990 as weekend co-anchor and reporter.

In addition to anchoring, Tyler takes viewers inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art in her weekly report "At the Met with Dana Tyler" every Sunday morning. She also reports on Broadway and Off-Broadway theatre and contributes in CBS 2 specials such as "Race for the Cure”, "CBS2 at Tony's”, “CBS2 at the Met”, “The New York Times Arts & Leisure Weekend” and the “Tunnel to Towers Run”.  

An integral part of the CBS 2 news team for more than 17 years, Tyler was honored by McDonald's at the Museum of Television and Radio as one of the 2007 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.

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 official 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 degree in marketing and broadcast journalism.