Elaine Quijano

Elaine Cagas Quijano is an American television reporter. Formerly with CNN, she is now an anchor with CBS News.

Early life and education

Quijano is a second-generation Filipina American. She grew up in the Skokie and Morton Grove suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. Quijano received a bachelor's degree in journalism in 1995 from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.

Career

Quijano began her career as an intern at WCIA-TV in Champaign, Illinois, in 1994, and later became a reporter, producer, and anchor there. In 1998, Quijano left WCIA to become a general assignment reporter for WFTS-TV in Tampa, Florida.

Quijano was a correspondent for CNN Newsource, an affiliate of CNN, starting in December 2000. She covered the September 11, 2001 attacks and traveled to Kuwait City shortly before the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. She remained in Kuwait for about a month. Quijano also covered the 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disaster and the Beltway sniper attacks. In 2004, Quijano joined CNN/US as a Washington, D.C.–based general assignment correspondent. She covered The Pentagon, the Supreme Court, the 2004 re-election campaign of President George W. Bush and campaign of vice presidential candidate John Edwards. In 2006, she was named a White House correspondent for CNN. In that role, Quijano covered major stories of the George W. Bush administration, including the war on terror, the unsuccessful bid for comprehensive immigration reform, and the 2008 financial crisis.

Quijano left CNN on December 23, 2009, and joined CBS News in early 2010 as a general assignment reporter.