Vladimir Duthiers is a featured host of "CBS Mornings" and is part of the team delivering the first look at the day's top stories. He also serves as anchor for CBS News 24/7. His work has been featured on the "CBS Evening News," "CBS Sunday Morning," "48 Hours," "CBS Mornings" and all CBS News platforms.
The Peabody Award- and Emmy Award-winning journalist has covered a wide range of breaking and feature stories since joining CBS News in 2014. He spent several months covering the protests against police in the aftermath of a White police officer shooting an unarmed African American man in Ferguson, Missouri, and spent several weeks reporting on the police manhunt for Eric Matthew Frein, who allegedly killed a Pennsylvania State Police officer. He's been embedded with the USAF in South Korea and Guam, flew a training mission in the back seat of an F-16 Viper miles from the DMZ separating North Korea and South Korea, and interviewed the commander of US Pacific Command, Admiral Harry Harrison. He's also flown with the U.S. Navy's Blue Angels.
Duthiers' reporting has taken him around the world. He explored the roots of Muslim extremism in the volatile suburbs of Paris and Brussels in the aftermath of the coordinated terrorist attacks in France that killed 130 people in November 2015. This was the first documentary project for the CBS News Reports docuseries. He was also nominated for an SPJ Sigma Delta Chi Award for his profile on international basketball star Sebastien Bellin's remarkable eight-month journey of recovery after being nearly killed in the attack in Brussels, Belgium, in March 2016. He has traveled to Brazil's Amazon jungle to report on how deforestation contributes to climate change and has reported from Haiti on numerous occasions - from interviewing several presidents of the republic to traveling to the epicenter of the 2020 earthquake.
In 2016, Duthiers anchored CBS News Streaming's live coverage of the 2016 Republican and Democratic conventions and every debate between former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
Duthiers has interviewed several high-profile politicians including former President Donald Trump and former President Bill Clinton; Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the late Senator John McCain, Senators Ted Cruz, Senator Cory Booker, Senator Bernie Sanders and former FBI Director James Comey. He has also interviewed business leaders including JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Duthiers has also interviewed basketball legend Kareem Abdul Jabbar as well as acclaimed celebrities and artists such as Oprah Winfrey, Harry Belafonte, Slash, Dave Grohl, Lin Manuel Miranda, Eddie Redmayne, Carrie Fisher, Billy Crystal, Trevor Noah, Aretha Franklin, Tarji P. Henson, Alicia Keys, Sir Patrick Stewart, Baz Luhrmann and Cher. He was part of CBS News' special coverage of the royal wedding between Prince Harry and Meghan Markle and the funeral of HRM Queen Elizabeth II in London.
Before CBS News, Duthiers was an international correspondent at CNN, based in Lagos, Nigeria. His work there was honored with a Peabody Award for his reporting on the more than 200 girls kidnapped from their school in Northeastern Nigeria by the Islamist terror group Boko Haram. During his assignment in Nigeria, Duthiers reported extensively on the terrorist activities of Boko Haram and covered the ongoing military intervention in Mali, as well as the terrorist attack on the Amenas gas plant in Algeria, the trial and sentencing of the former Liberian warlord Charles Taylor at the ICC in Sierra Leone, the crash of Dana Air Flight 992, and President Barack Obama's visit to Senegal. He also reported from the Middle East on the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, from the streets of Bangkok during Thailand's political turmoil, and the birth of the royal baby Prince George in July 2013.
He began his career at CNN in 2009 as a production assistant on the news program "Amanpour" before going on to serve as an associate producer for "Anderson Cooper 360°." He was among the first journalists to arrive in Haiti to cover the 2010 earthquake and was part of the team that won two Emmy Awards for their coverage.
Prior to his career in journalism, Duthiers spent 18 years in the investment management industry, most recently as a managing director at an investment company, where he led global investment initiatives for clients based in 21 countries. Duthiers graduated from the University of Rhode Island with a B.A. in political science and from Columbia University with a M.S. in journalism. In 2017, he was awarded Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa by the university of Rhode Island. He is fluent in French and Haitian Creole and is still trying to learn Mandarin Chinese.
