Asha Blake
Asha Blake is a five-time Emmy Award-winning television news journalist. Her US-based career has spanned anchoring ABC and NBC network newscasts, daytime- and entertainment-based talk shows, and local news anchoring at flagship news stations KNBC and KTLA. Having anchored at two of the Big Three Television Networks, she joins the ranks of pioneering journalist Barara Walters and Diane Sawyer. Asha is currently the Los Angeles-based hard news correspondent for the syndicated television news magazine show America Now.Asha co-hosted the NBC national news program “Later Today” and ABC’s “World News Now,” “World News this Morning,” and “Good Morning America Sunday”, in addition to reporting for ABC’s “World News Tonight with Peter Jennings. Her network anchoring positions put her on the front lines of breaking news events and national disasters including the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, the Monica Lewinsky scandal, the death of Princess Diana, and interviews around the Columbine High School Shootings. She also has interviewed world leaders including Bill Clinton and Al Gore, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Reverend Jesse Jackson, business leaders such as Ross Perot, and conducted lighter celebrity interviews with Denzel Washington and Claire Forlani.Asha has conducted thousands of live interviews, covered numerous high-profile court cases, and also served as a medical reporter early in her career.Her Emmy award wins were for producing, writing and on-camera hosting. She also produced 3 television specials that earned her team 12 Emmy nominations in news.She has been featured in magazines and newspapers including Time, USA Weekend, InStyle Magazine, Emmy Magazine, Core Business, Ladies’ Home Journal and other media outlets.
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