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Reporters
Suraya Fadel's award winning career has taken her from Northern California, to the Central Coast, San Joaquin Valley and the Midwest.
Suraya's childhood dream was to be a reporter in the community where she was born and raised. Today she is doing just that, back home in Southern California working as a television news reporter for CBS 2 and KCAL 9. Suraya also reports for CBS Newspath and her work can be seen nationally. Suraya is a proud -- born and raised -- Angeleno.
Since 2001, Suraya has been on the front lines covering breaking stories of both local and national interest -- from devastating wildfires to Paris Hilton's jail arrest and release, funerals for Presidents Gerald Ford and Ronald Regan and Michael Jackson's trial.
Suraya's career began in San Francisco as a production assistant, assignment editor and writer. Suraya's first on air job was in Monterey, where she was a producer and a reporter. She was the first reporter to obtain the Air Traffic control tower tapes in the plane crash investigation of singer John Denver.
Suraya also covered exclusive stories including a national kidnapping case and an interview with Mexican President Vicente Fox. Her aggressive reporting and passion for news landed her a job at the #1 ABC station in Fresno as a chief reporter and fill in weekend anchor. Suraya also started up the bureau for Tulare & Kings counties; served as the South Valley bureau's chief reporter and covered breaking news and enterprising daily exclusive stories.
Many of her reports focused on the plight of farm workers in the Central Valley. Suraya expanded her career in Detroit, Michigan as an investigative, special assignment and consumer reporter for the CBS/UPN station. Her exclusive report on the exploitation of migrant workers led to state lawmakers making legislative changes. Suraya was awarded a National Telly award for her story and received a first place Michigan Broadcaster's Association award for a series on the Michigan Militia.
Suraya graduated from Eagle Rock High School. She received her college degree from UC Berkeley. Suraya majored in Mass Communications with an emphasis in Latin American Studies and a minor in Spanish.
Suraya is the oldest of eight siblings and she is first generation of Colombian and Lebanese decent. Her family is culturally diverse and even includes an Irish wing -- known for their musical background in the East Coast. Suraya speaks, reads and writes Spanish fluently as well as some Arabic.
She and her husband enjoy living in the Southland and entertaining family and friends as often as possible.
