Career
She is also a 1997 recipient of the Murrow Award for investigative journalism. Corderi is a graduate of Saint Bonaventure University with a Bachelor of Arts in journalism. Corderi was a reporter with The Miami News, a defunct afternoon newspaper.
She then began as a reporter for WPLG-television in Miami in 1982.
Corderi covered the 1985 8.0 magnitude earthquake in Chile for Columbia Broadcasting System News. At Columbia Broadcasting System, she served as a correspondent for the newsmagazines 48 Hours and Street Stories and as news anchor for the Columbia Broadcasting System Morning News, as well as anchoring Columbia Broadcasting System Newsbreaks inbetween programming.
In September 1992, Corderi was hired by WABC-television She was brought in to be the co-anchor for the station"s freshly launched midday Eyewitness News broadcast alongside morning co-anchor and future Fox News contributor East.D. Hill and to serve as a reporter for other newscasts. Corderi"s tenure there was a short one, as she was only at WABC for eighteen months.
Corderi was employed at National Broadcasting Company News starting in 1994 as a correspondent for Dateline National Broadcasting Company. Corderi is a recipient of the Las Primeras Award for being one of the first Hispanic network anchors.
She is listed in Who"s Who Among Hispanic Americans. She is also a recipient of the Gerald Loeb Award bestowed by the University of California, Los Angeles Anderson School of Management.