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VICKI MABREY
Correspondent, “Nightline”
Vicki Mabrey is a correspondent for ABC News’ “Nightline” and is based in the network’s New York bureau. Prior to joining ABC News in November 2005, she was a correspondent for CBS News’ “60 Minutes II,” a position she had held since the program’s debut in 1999.
Ms. Mabrey reported on a wide range of stories for “60 Minutes II,” including the fight against terrorism in Yemen, Afghan women who lived under the Taliban’s rule, and the New York City Fire Department in the days following 9/11. Prior to her role at the newsmagazine, she was a London-based correspondent for CBS News, from 1995 to 1998. In that role she covered stories throughout Europe and the Middle East, including the United Nations arms inspection crisis in Iraq, the conflict in Northern Ireland and the continuing investigation of the death of Princess Diana.
Ms. Mabrey joined CBS News in 1992 as a Dallas-based correspondent, where she reported on the Branch Davidian stand-off near Waco, Texas, the great Midwest flood of 1993 and on the uprising in Haiti, among many other major events. Prior to joining CBS News, she was a general assignment reporter for WBAL-TV, the then-CBS affiliate in Baltimore, from 1984 to 1992. She began her journalism career in 1982 in the AFTRA reporter training program at WUSA-TV, the CBS affiliate in Washington, DC.
Ms. Mabrey is the recipient of four Emmy Awards: two in 1997 for her reporting for CBS News on the death of Princess Diana, and two in 1996 for CBS News’ coverage of the Atlanta Olympic bombing and the crash of TWA Flight 800.
Born in St. Louis, MO, Ms. Mabrey graduated cum laude from Howard University in Washington, DC in 1977 with a BA in political science. She lives in New York.