Cinnamon Linda Stouffer is an American television news correspondent.
Education
Born in San Marcos, Texas, Stouffer attended the public school system, graduating from San Marcos High School in 1988. Stouffer then attended the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas, on a Phi Beta Kappa scholarship. She graduated with a bachelor"s degree in communication, magna cum laude in 1992.
Career
She currently co-anchors the early morning news broadcasts on WSB-television 2, Atlanta, Georgia. She was Texas" Junior Mission when she was a high school senior and participated in the America"s Junior Mission Scholarship Program in 1988. After college, Stouffer (working under the name Cinnamon Stouffer) was hired as a general assignment reporter at KMOL-television in San Antonio in 1992, eventually being promoted to an anchor.
In 1994 she moved to Miami, Florida, working as a general assignment reporter and weekend anchor for WSVN-television She moved to Atlanta, Georgia in 1997, joining Cable News Network (Cable News Network), there she changed her professional name to Linda Stouffer.
At Cable News Network, she co-anchored the morning news program Ahead of the Curve, which aired simultaneously on Cable News Network/United States. and CNNfn, Cable News Network"s former financial news network. She also was a weekday and later a weekend anchor for Cable News Network Headline News.
Stouffer was among several laid off in December 2008, her last day at Cable News Network being December 14, 2008. She then began working local news on WSB-television Atlanta.
She anchored the 6pm news and the Action News Nightbeat on Sundays.
She also filed stories for the News at 5 and 6pm during the week. On 7 January 2013 she became a weekday early morning co-anchor on the 4:30am newscast.