Nikki Battiste Biography – Nikki Battiste Wiki
Nikki Battiste is an American broadcast journalist. She is the CBS News National correspondent and is based in New York. She has been awarded an Emmy and a Peabody award for her work.
Her reports can be found on all CBS News broadcast platforms such as 48 Hours, CBS Sunday Morning, CBS Evening News, and CBS Mornings among other platforms. She has also served as a fill-in anchor for “CBS Weekend News, and for the “What to Watch” segment on “CBS Mornings.”
Born in Pennsylvania, she attended school and was co-captain of their Division I Field Hockey team in Pennsylvania. She proceeded to the University of Pennsylvania and graduated with a B.A. in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics. Her first job was at NBC News Page where she worked on Saturday Night Live and Today. She then served as a production associate at Today.
Battiste has also worked with ABC as a news producer and reporter based in New York. She traveled worldwide covering breaking news stories as well as feature stories for ABC News broadcast platforms like World News Tonight, Nightline, and Good Morning America. At ABC News, Battiste reported on the 2016 Presidential Election, Pope Francis’ visit to the U.S., the Ebola crisis, and Hurricane Sandy. She booked and produced Diane Sawyer’s ABC News exclusive interview with Knox in an hour-long special “Murder Mystery: Amanda Knox Speaks.” She co-produced other Diane Sawyer specials, including America’s Shrinking Middle Class, and interviews with the youngest woman on death row and Newtown’s heroic teacher, Kaitlin Roig, just a few hours after Roig saved her first-grade students’ lives by hiding them in a bathroom.
Nikki Battiste CBS News
Her career at CBS News started as a freelance correspondent in May 2017 for CBS Newspath. Her report extensively covered the search for four missing men in Pennsylvania, the Parkland school shooting, and the Austin bomber. Battiste has also covered breaking news for the Network, including the coronavirus pandemic; the Indianapolis FedEx shooting, the El Paso Walmart shooting; and the New Zealand mosque shooting.
According to the CBS News website, Battiste’s groundbreaking investigations into the 2018 Catholic Church sexual abuse scandal received critical acclaim. In a television first, her original reporting led to two clergy abuse survivors sitting down face-to-face with the priest they say abused them as children. During a separate investigation with the CBS News investigative unit, Battiste and her team uncovered allegations of sexual abuse against a priest still in active ministry in the Galveston-Houston archdiocese, over which the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops president Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, presides.
She has been awarded several Emmy, Edward R Murrow, and CINE Golden Eagle awards, and a Peabody, Deadline, and Front Page award.
Nikki Battiste Age
She was born on January 11, 1980s. Her exact year of birth is unknown. She was born in Pennsylvania, United States.
Nikki Battiste Husband
Is Nikki Battiste married? She is married to her husband, Dean Simpson who is of Welsh origin. The pair got married on September 5, 2016, in Huntington, New York. Nikki and her husband Dean Simpson met in May of 2012 at the Standard Hotel’s Biergarten in New York City according to Wedding Style Magazine. “I was blown away by Nikki’s beautiful smile,” says Dean. “Then, as we talked, I loved how composed, elegant, and intriguing she was.”
Nikki Battiste Wedding
Their wedding took place on September 5, 2016, in Huntington, New YorkWedding At Oheka Castle In Huntington, New York. For their honeymoon, the newlyweds traveled to Italy’s Amalfi Coast for a romantic getaway with unforgettable surroundings.
Nikki Battiste Parents
She is the daughter of Nicholas (father) and Judy Battiste (mother). She has a younger brother, Brandon.
Nikki Battiste Son
She is a mother of two children, She has a son named Beau Nicholas Battiste-Simpson. Her son was born on May 12, 2020. Her daughter Viviana Hope Battiste-Simpson was born on July 14, 2023.
Nikki Battiste Nationality
She is of American nationality.
Her Instagram handle is @nikkibattistecbs.
