Robin Michelle Meade (born April 21, 1969) is a former American television news correspondent. She was the lead

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for HLN's morning show '' Morning Express with Robin Meade''. Meade was a former

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and began her broadcasting career with local stations in Ohio. She joined HLN in 2001. She won a regional Emmy Award. Meade released country music albums in 2011 and 2013.

Early life

Meade grew up in New London, Ohio and graduated from New London High School. She attended

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and

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, where she majored in radio/television production, programming and performance and minored in political science. She graduated in 1991.

Career

In 1992, Meade became

, and was a semi-finalist in the 1993

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pageant. Meade began her career in broadcasting as a reporter at WMFD-TV in

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. She then worked as an anchor and reporter at WCMH-TV in

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, and at WJW-TV in

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. Later, she got a job in

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as the morning news anchor of WSVN-TV's ''Today in Florida'' and also served as the station's noon anchor and health reporter. She went on to work at

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affiliate

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where she started anchoring the morning newscasts and then co-anchored the weekend newscasts and also served as a general assignment correspondent for the station. During her tenure with the NBC affiliate, she covered the

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, which included special reporting on the Centennial Olympic Park bombing. She then joined HLN, then known as CNN Headline News. Meade anchored the network's coverage of Operation Enduring Freedom as well as that from Operation Iraqi Freedom in the spring of 2003. She was based in CNN's world headquarters in Atlanta. Her first day on-air at HLN was

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. Meade hosted '' Morning Express with Robin Meade'' on HLN on weekday mornings, along with Bob Van Dillen,

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, Melissa Knowles and

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. She wrote a book titled ''Morning Sunshine!: How to Radiate Confidence and Feel It Too.'' It was released on September 10, 2009. She has referred to it as a "non-fiction / motivational / inspirational / how-to / autobiographical book." It debuted at No. 12 on the "Advice, How-To, and Miscellaneous" section of the

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. In 2011, Meade was the moderator on the Oprah Winfrey Network show ''Ask Oprah's All Stars'' with Dr. Phil McGraw, Suze Orman and

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. On June 21, 2011, Meade released a country music album titled ''Brand New Day''. A single, " Dirty Laundry," was released to country radio. Meade was featured on the cover of the January/February 2011 issue of '' Making Music'' magazine and in an article about her experiences with recreational music. Meade sang the "Star Spangled Banner" as part of the NASCAR Sprint Cup pre-race activities for the 2010 Toyota/Save Mart 350, the

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and the

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on Memorial Day Weekend. On December 1, 2022, Meade and the entire HLN Atlanta team were laid off as part of CNN President Chris Licht's restructuring of the network. Meade's timeslot was replaced with a simulcast of CNN This Morning.

Awards and honors

* 1992

winner * 1995 regional

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(covering the

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) * 2002

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Top 20 most popular TV news personalities In 2004, she was voted "Sexiest Newscaster" by a Playboy.com online poll, with 40% of the vote (16,145 votes over a total of 40,380). * 2005

Young Alumnus Award for her achievements in broadcasting and served as the commencement speaker for the university's 2005 graduation ceremonies.

Discography

Studio albums

Singles

Authored books

Personal life

Meade married Tim Yeager on November 6, 1993. On June 6, 2017, Meade revealed that

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is a distant cousin.

References

External links

Official Robin Meade Site

Morning Express blog
with posts by Robin and the crew
Robin's weekly podcast feed
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