Kenneth Craig has been named a correspondent for CBS Newspath, the Network’s 24-hour television newsgathering service for CBS stations and broadcasters around the world. Craig will be based in New York. His appointment is effective June 15, 2015.

            Craig joins CBS News from WFTV-TV in Orlando, where he had been a general assignment reporter since 2011. While there, he provided extensive coverage of the aftermath of the Trayvon Martin shooting and reported on an Orlando woman killed by her car’s exploding Takata airbag. He also reported several investigative stories in Central Florida, one of which exposed how critical HIV/AIDS funds were being unused by local government. Another investigative story uncovered dozens of people with dangerous and violent criminal pasts who were working at local and state licensed daycare centers.

            Previously, Craig was a reporter in Boston for NECN (New England Cable News), where he reported across the region’s five states. Before that, Craig was a reporter at Charter TV3 in Worcester, Mass. He began his journalism career at the radio station WERS 88.9 FM at Emerson College.

            Craig graduated from Emerson College in 2008 with a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism.

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