Celia Hatton has been named CBS News Correspondent, Sean McManus, President, CBS News and Sports, announced today.  In this capacity Hatton will report from China and contribute to CBS News broadcasts across the division.  Her appointment is effective immediately.

"Celia has provided truly outstanding journalism for us and we are delighted that she will be joining the CBS News team full time," said McManus.  "Celia's vast and detailed knowledge of the region, her insights, her contacts and her skill as a reporter all enhance our ability to reach CBS News' audiences with accurate and important stories from a critical and complex region of the world."

Hatton has covered China and the surrounding region for CBS News since April 2003.  She has provided reports from almost every corner of the country, including the southern factory belt,  the ice festival held each year in the north, the coastal metropolises of Shanghai and Beijing and cancer villages in western China.

Hatton has covered China and the surrounding region for CBS News since April 2003.  She has provided reports from almost every corner of the country, including the southern factory belt, water shortages in the North, the coastal metropolises of Shanghai and Beijing and cancer villages in western China.

Hatton also has traveled throughout Asia on behalf of CBS News.  Her wide-ranging reports included the Mumbai terrorist attacks, the earthquake on the island of Nias in Indonesia, the outbreak of bird flu in Vietnam, genetic cloning in South Korea and the devastating cyclone in Myanmar. 

Hatton's coverage of China's Sichuan earthquake in 2008 garnered a Gracie Award from the Association of American Women in Radio and Television.  Hatton reported the story exclusively for CBS News and the award-winning reports were broadcast on the CBS EVENING NEWS, THE EARLY SHOW, CBS Newspath and CBS Network Radio.

Previously, Hatton was a freelance reporter in China for a variety of radio and television programs, including the PBS Nightly Business Report, the BBC World Service and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.  She also worked as the China Correspondent for the U.S. public radio program, Pacific Time.

Hatton received a Bachelor of Political Studies from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Before moving to China, she was a news writer and producer at Citytv in Toronto, Canada.