Priya Clemens
Priya Clemens is the host of KQED Newsroom, the long-running television weekly news series. Clemens has over 15 years of television news experience working for a variety of national and local outlets, including CBS News, NBC News and KTVU. Celemens was a national correspondent for CBS News (2008-2012), reporting for the CBS Evening News and The Early Show, anchoring the CBS Weekend Early Show news desk, and filling in as host of the Saturday and Sunday CBS Evening News. As a general assignment reporter covering breaking news for Bay Area Fox affiliate KTVU (2005-2008), she covered a multitude of stories, including a major San Francisco Bay oil spill and the murder trial of journalist Chauncey Bailey. At NBC News (2002-2004), Clemens served as a producer and news associate for NBC Weekend Nightly News, Dateline, Nightly News with Tom Brokaw and News with Brian Williams. Clemens has also been a journalist at KOIN in Portland, Oregon; WVTM in Birmingham, Alabama; KKFX in Santa Barbara, California; and the Orange County News Channel.