Background
Daniels, Faith was born in 1957 in Pittsburgh, AMERICA0. Daughter of Steven and Mary Skowronski.
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Faith Daniels
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Born Faith Augustine in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Daniels attended Bethany College in Bethany, West Virginia–where she was initiated as a member of Zeta Tau Alpha sorority–and graduated from Trinity High School in Washington, Pennsylvania.
Career
Daniels began her media careers in the early 1980s, working for American Broadcasting Company and Columbia Broadcasting System News affiliates in Peoria, Illinois. WBNS-television in Columbus, Ohio. And also at WTAE-television in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and WTRF-television in Wheeling, West Virginia.
She began her national news career when she joined Columbia Broadcasting System News as the anchor of the Columbia Broadcasting System Morning News in the spring of 1985.
At age 28, she was one of the youngest national news anchors. She joined National Broadcasting Company in June 1990 as the news anchor for Today and became anchor of the now-defunct News at Sunrise.
In 1991, she became the first journalist to host her own national daily talk show A Closer Look (which was later renamed Faith Daniels), which aired on National Broadcasting Company at 12:30 ET. Among the show"s prominent interviews was with Stacey Koon–one of the police officers involved in the beating of Rodney King–on October 24, 1992. Daniels had a cameo role in a 1992 Murphy Brown episode as a guest at Murphy"s baby shower along with Katie Couric, Paula Zahn, Mary Alice Williams, and Joan Lunden.
She worked at the news magazine Dateline National Broadcasting Company from 1993–1995.
In the mid-1990s, she did a series of commercials for the heartburn medication Pepcid Air Corps. An active supporter of the National Council for Adoption, Daniels no longer works as an anchor, reporter, or host. However, she did return to public view by playing the part of the candidates" debate moderator in Robin Williams"s 2006 movie Manitoba of the Year.
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Member National Council Adoption.
Connections
Married Dean Daniels, 1981. Children: Andrew, Alyx Rae, Aidan Rose.
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Roman Catholic