The Biography

Erin F. Moriarty is an American television news reporter and correspondent. She has been a correspondent on "48 Hours" since 1990. She has won national Emmy Awards several times. Moriarty was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and raised in Columbus, Ohio. She graduated from Ohio State University, Phi Beta Kappa, with a degree in behavioral sciences and received a law degree from the university in 1977. Moriarty is licensed to practice law in Ohio and Maryland. Prior to joining CBS News, she was an award winning consumer reporter for WMAQ-TV in Chicago (1983-1986). She was also a reporter at WCMH-TV in Columbus, Ohio (1979-1980); at WJZ-TV in Baltimore (1980-1982); and at WJKW-TV in Cleveland, Ohio (1982-1983). Her reporting has earned Moriarty virtually every major journalism award available. In 2019, she was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation. She's won nine Emmy Awards; three Gracie Awards; she was part of the team coverage of the Newtown, Connecticut, elementary school shooting which earned CBS News a 2014 duPont-Columbia award; and her work was part of "CBS Sunday Morning"'s 2015 Daytime Emmy Award. In 2000 and 2003, she was honored with the Top 100 Award from Irish America magazine. And in 1988, Moriarty received the Outstanding Consumer Media Service Award presented by the Consumer Federation of America.