Nikki Battiste

Battiste graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Politics Philosophy and Economics She began her career as an NBC News Page working on Saturday Night Live and Today before working as a production associate at Today Later she was an awardwinning ABC News producer and reporter based in New York She traveled the globe to cover breaking news and feature stories for all ABC News broadcast platforms including Good Morning America World News Tonight Nightline 2020 and ABCNewscom In May 2017 Battiste began working at CBS News as a freelance correspondent for CBS Newspath the Networks 24hour television newsgathering service for CBS stations and broadcasters around the world Battiste has won several Emmy Edward R Murrow and CINE Golden Eagle awards and a Peabody Deadline and Front Page award