CNN Headline News - Stephen Frazier

Stephen Frazier

Stephen Frazier is a news anchor for CNN Headline News, co-anchoring with Kathleen Kennedy. Based in CNN’s world headquarters in Atlanta, Frazier co-anchored the network’s coverage of the Columbia Space Shuttle tragedy in February 2003 as well as that of the war in Iraq in the spring of 2003.

Previously, Frazier served as a weekend news anchor for CNN/U.S. and has co-anchored CNN NewsStand and CNN & Fortune. He also served as senior correspondent and co-anchor of Impact, the CNN & TIME weekly prime-time investigative newsmagazine. From 1993-1996, he served as senior correspondent for CNN Presents, the network's award-winning documentary news hour.

Frazier joined CNN in 1993 and his many contributions to the network include CNN Presents’ “Our Planetary Police,” an Emmy Award-winning program that reported on the U.N.'s more aggressive approach to peace. He also contributed to the CableACE Award-winning CNN Presents’ “Work In Progress,” a profile of the country's changing workplace. CNN Presents’ “The Killing Tide,” hosted by Frazier, earned a National Headliner Award for its candid look at the crisis caused by over-fishing off U.S. coasts. Additionally, his work on CNN Presents’ “Fool's Gold?” was nominated for a CableACE Award and an Emmy.

Before joining CNN, Frazier spent 12 years at NBC News as a network correspondent and anchor. He frequently anchored NBC Nightly News and NBC News at Sunrise. He also reported from the field for these broadcasts and others and served as the substitute host for Today. While at NBC News, Frazier lived on three continents and was assigned to five bureaus, including Tokyo, London and Rome.

He previously worked as an anchor and reporter at WJZ-TV, the Westinghouse Broadcasting station in Baltimore, and WNYS-TV in Syracuse, N.Y. He was also a weekend reporter at WJAR-TV in Providence, R.I.

Frazier earned a bachelor's degree in English from Williams College in Williamstown, Mass.