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Katherine Jean Bolduan, professionally known as Kate Bolduan, is an American broadcast journalist. She is best known as the anchor of the ‘CNN’ morning show ‘At This Hour.’ Earlier, she co-anchored the ‘CNN’ weekday morning program ‘New Day’ and ‘The Situation Room.’ Bolduan was part of ‘CNN’s award-winning coverage of the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections. She has also served as a congressional correspondent based in Washington, DC, covering the activities of the ‘US House’ and the senate. During her membership for the ‘Capitol Hill Unit,’ Bolduan reported on the legislative cycle and congressional events such as negotiations to increase the federal debt limit and the super committee deliberations. She has also served as a general assignment correspondent, covering stories such as the 2009 Christmas Day bombing attempt, the landmark ‘Supreme Court’ decision on ‘Obamacare,’ and the implementation of the government’s stimulus plan in 2009. She joined ‘CNN’ in 2007, as a national correspondent for ‘CNN Newsource.’ As a national correspondent she provided breaking news coverage and feature reports for more than 800 ‘CNN Newsource’ affiliates. Ealier, she worked with ‘NBC News,’ ‘MSNBC,’ and ‘WTVD-TV.’ She currently lives in New York City with her husband and two children. Following her graduation, from 2005 to 2007, Bolduan worked as a general assignment reporter for ‘WTVD-TV’ in Raleigh, North Carolina. She then joined ‘NBC News’ and ‘MSNBC’ in Washington, DC, as a production assistant. She also worked at ‘House & Garden’ magazine, ‘Dateline NBC,’ and ‘NBC Nightly News.’ In 2007, Bolduan joined ‘CNN’ as a national correspondent for ‘CNN Newsource.’ She was mostly responsible for providing breaking news coverage and feature reports for over 800 ‘CNN Newsource’ affiliates. Her most notable work during this period was the coverage of the 2008 US presidential election, for which she traveled throughout the country. She also covered major headlines such as the Minneapolis Bridge collapse, the OJ Simpson armed robbery case, and the retiring ‘NASA Space Shuttle’ fleet. In 2013, Bolduan briefly co-anchored an early evening ‘CNN’ newscast called ‘The Situation Room,’ with Wolf Blitzer. She provided current events, breaking news, political headlines, and other reports, amidst a lively 2-hour discussion. In 2013, Bolduan anchored ‘New Day,’ a weekday morning TV show on ‘CNN.’ The show replaced ‘Starting Point,’ formerly anchored by Soledad O’Brien in 2012. In 2014, Bolduan made a feature called ‘Kate Bolduan’s Roots,’ covering how her ancestors arrived in America from Belgium in 1912. She also traveled to Belgium to know more about her family history. The same year, she began presenting for the ‘Fashion Tech Forum’ independently. The program supported innovators.
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