Michelle Miller is the co-host of “CBS This Morning: Saturday.” Her work regularly appears on “CBS Evening News,” “CBS This Morning” and “CBS Sunday Morning.” She has also appeared as a correspondent on “48 Hours.” Miller joined CBS News in 2004.

While at CBS News, Miller has reported on many stories of national and international importance. She provided extensive coverage of the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, following the shooting death of Michael Brown. She also covered the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut; the shooting at Chardon High School in Ohio; the 2004, 2008 and 2012 presidential elections; the death of Whitney Houston; the 100th anniversary of the Titanic’s sinking; medical care for the rural poor in South Africa; and Hurricanes Sandy, Irene and Katrina.

Miller’s reporting has earned her several journalism awards, including an Emmy Award for her series of reports on the National Guard’s Youth Challenge Academy, an Edward R. Murrow Award for her coverage of a day-care center stand-off in New Orleans, and she was part of the Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award-winning team for coverage of the Newtown, Connecticut, school shooting. In 2019, Miller won an Alliance for Women in Media Gracie Award for her reporting on the hidden world of sex trafficking in the “48 Hours” episode, “Live to Tell: Trafficked.”

She has also earned a Salute to Excellence Award from the National Association of Black Journalists and was voted Woman of the Year by the National Sports Foundation. In 2014, TV Week named Miller one of the “12 to watch in TV news.”

Miller has interviewed global leaders, politicians, artists and celebrities, including President Bill Clinton, Oprah Winfrey, former Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev, Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai, renowned artist Peter Max, Beyonce, John Goodman, Tony Bennett, James Earl Jones, Lenny Kravitz, LL Cool J, Carlos Santana, Denzel Washington and violinist Yo-Yo Ma.

Miller earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Howard University and studied abroad in Kenya and Tanzania. Miller also holds a master’s degree in urban studies from the University of New Orleans.

Her career in broadcast and print journalism includes work at the Los Angeles Times; the StarTribune in Minneapolis; WWL-TV in New Orleans; WIS-TV in Columbia, S.C.; the Orange County Newschannel and ABC News’ “Nightline” in Washington, DC. Miller also taught journalism and mass communications courses at Dillard University in New Orleans.