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Eliott Rodriguez
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Eliott's Video Library Eliott Rodriguez is an Emmy Award winning journalist and respected South Florida anchorman. He is co-anchor of CBS4 News at noon and 5:30 PM, and host of "News & Views with Eliott Rodriguez."
Eliott's career has included coverage of major stories in the United States, Europe and Latin America. He has traveled to Cuba on more than a dozen reporting assignments, including a 2002 trip in which he interviewed Cuban leader Fidel Castro. In 2003, he traveled to the Vatican to report on the health of Pope John Paul II.
Eliott has received numerous awards and honors during a career that has spanned three decades. He is the recipient of two Emmy Awards, two Edward R. Murrow Awards, and the highest honor given by the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. He's been named "Best News Anchor" by Miami New Times, and one of South Florida's Sharp Dressed Men by Ocean Drive Magazine. In 2005, he was honored with a Silver Circle Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for 25 years of excellence in the television industry
Eliott's interest in journalism began in his high school days when he was an editorial cartoonist for the LaSalle High School student newspaper. After graduation from college, he was hired as a police reporter for The Miami News. He made the transition from newspaper reporting to television in 1980 at Miami's WTVJ. He also worked as a reporter and anchor at WPVI in Philadelphia and WPLG in Miami. He joined WFOR (CBS4) in 1999.
Eliott has covered such major news events as the invasion of Panama, Hurricane Andrew, the Mariel Boatlift, earthquakes in Mexico and Venezuela, elections in Nicaragua, the Ibero-American Summit in Madrid, political conventions, the MOVE bombing in Philadelphia, riots in Miami and the Pope's visit to Cuba. His op-ed columns have appeared in The Miami Herald and Sun-Sentinel.
A New York City native, Eliott is the son of Cuban immigrants. He is a graduate of the University of Miami, Miami-Dade College and LaSalle High School in Miami. Both Miami-Dade and LaSalle have honored him with induction in their Hall of Fames. Eliott is the father of four daughters and an avid tennis player.
