Fredricka Whitfield is a news anchor for CNN/U.S. Based in the network's world headquarters in Atlanta, Whitfield anchors the weekend edition of “CNN Newsroom.” Whitfield also works as a correspondent for the network, reporting on breaking news events worldwide.

Since joining CNN in 2002, Whitfield has reported from the Persian Gulf region during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Beijing, China during the 2008 Summer Olympic Games and Washington, D.C. during the 2009 presidential inauguration.

Before CNN, Whitfield was a correspondent for NBC News and served as an Atlanta-based correspondent for NBC Nightly News and other programs for the network including “The Today Show” and “Dateline NBC.”
Before joining NBC, Whitfield was a reporter and anchor at WPLG-TV in Miami, an evening anchor for News Channel 8 in Washington, D.C., and a general assignment reporter at KTVT-TV in Dallas. Earlier, Whitfield was a general assignment reporter for WTNH in New Haven, Conn. She began her professional career as a reporter and morning anchor for WCIV in Charleston, S.C.

Whitfield has garnered multiple awards and honors for her broadcasting work from Sigma Delta Chi, The Society of Professional Journalist and the Associated Press. In 2000 she earned an Emmy Award nomination for long-form storytelling. Awards include 2002 Howard University School of Communications Alumna of the year, 2005 George Peabody Award for live coverage of Hurricane Katrina and aftermath, 2005 Ebony Award for Outstanding Women in Marketing and Communications, 2007 Emmy Award for outstanding live coverage of a breaking news story long form, 2008 NAMD Communicator of the Year, 2008 Howard University postgraduate achievement in the field of Journalism, 2009 NYABJ long form feature.
Whitfield earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from Howard University.