Adriana Diaz Biography

She was born and raised in New York City to parents from the Dominican Republic. She attended Stuyvesant High School and was Miss New York USA 2006 and Miss New York Teen USA 2003, held in Palm Springs, California. Adriana speaks Mandarin, Spanish, and French.

That pageant was won by Tami Farrell. Diaz won the Miss New York USA 2006 title in a state pageant held in late 2005. She competed for the title of Miss USA in Baltimore, Maryland on April 21, 2006.

The pageant was won by Miss Kentucky, Tara Conner. Diaz has attended Stuyvesant High School in NYC and has a master’s degree in Public Affairs and Public Administration from Columbia University.

Diaz is currently the Beijing-based correspondent for CBS News. Previously, Diaz reported for CBS News from the network’s Chicago bureau and has worked for CBS News as a digital journalist in the network’s headquarters in New York City.

Prior to that, Diaz had worked for Channel One News, a youth-oriented news program. She was a financial analyst at Goldman Sachs. Diaz is CBS News national correspondent based in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Adriana Diaz CBS News

Adriana Diaz is a CBS News national correspondent based in Chicago. Diaz has done extensive reporting for CBS News on the Flint water crisis and Chicago’s gun violence epidemic, including a week spent in the gang-controlled territory. She spent a month covering the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, and the youth movement that followed. Diaz also covered the 2017 Las Vegas shooting and has followed one survivor’s journey to recovery.

Previously, Diaz was CBS News’ Asia correspondent based in Beijing, China, where she used her Mandarin skills to report from China on U.S.-Chinese relations, Chinese politics, science, and culture. Diaz reported from inside North Korea twice, documenting the country’s political pageantry and isolation. Her Asia assignments also included reporting from the Korean Demilitarized Zone, South Korea, Japan, and Laos.

As a CBS Newspath correspondent, Diaz covered Pope Francis’ visits to Brazil in 2013, Israel and Palestine in 2014, Cuba in 2015, and Mexico in 2016. She was part of the first team dispatched to Havana for the normalization of relations with the U.S. in December 2014 and covered the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia.

Prior to joining CBS News in New York in 2012, Diaz reported for the in-school news program Channel One News and hosted Yahoo’s Trending Now web show. Before journalism, Diaz was a financial analyst at Goldman Sachs. She attended Princeton University, majoring in Public and International Affairs at its Woodrow Wilson School.

She received her Master’s in Public Affairs and Public Administration in a dual degree program at Columbia University and France’s Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Science Po).