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Janelle Burrell

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Janelle Burrell is an Emmy Award-winning journalist and co-anchor of CBS News Philadelphia Mornings from 4:30-8 a.m. and 9-10 a.m.

Since joining the team in 2019, Janelle has reported on key stories, including the pivotal 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, one of the first one-on-one interviews with Philadelphia's first female mayor after her historic election, and the 2024-25 Eagles Super Bowl Championship win. She loves telling the stories of our communities and being part of station initiatives, including the CBS Philadelphia Trudy Haynes Scholarship, honoring the late Trudy Haynes, who was Philadelphia's first Black television reporter, whom Janelle had the honor of knowing personally.

Janelle also co-anchors the station's annual charity telethons benefiting Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation and Ronald McDonald House Charities.

Prior to Philadelphia, Janelle spent six years as a general assignment reporter at CBS News New York in New York City. She was part of the anchor team that helped launch the station's streaming channel. At WCBS, Janelle broke an exclusive investigation into an alleged cover-up within New York City's public housing system, earning her a Salute to Excellence Award for Investigative Journalism from the National Association of Black Journalists and a New York Emmy Nomination for investigative reporting.

Janelle also worked as a reporter at News 12 Westchester and Time Warner Cable News - Binghamton. She started her career working behind the scenes at WNYW Fox 5 in New York, and MSNBC.

Janelle is an alumna of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, where she spent several semesters as an adjunct professor. She earned a bachelor's degree from Penn State University with a major in English and a minor in Biology.

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