Paula Zahn

Paula Ann Zahn (born February 24, 1956) is an American  journalist, newscaster, news anchor, and TV host. She has been an anchor at ABC News, CBS News, Fox News, and CNN. She produced and is the host of ID's true crime documentary series On the Case with Paula Zahn. In 1987, Zahn accepted an offer to work at ABC News, initially anchoring The Health Show, a weekend program on health and medical issues. Within a few months she was co-anchoring World News This Morning, the network's early morning newscast, and anchoring news segments on Good Morning America as well as substituting for co-host Joan Lunden. In 1990, Zahn was offered a job at CBS News, which she took beginning on February 26, 1990, co-anchoring CBS This Morning with Harry Smith. During this time, she helped cover the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France with Tim McCarver and the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, as well as covering the Waco siege. Both she and Smith left after changes were made at the mor...