Carter Evans is a national correspondent for CNN Newsource's "Money Matters," a market-exclusive, multi-platform financial news service produced in conjunction with CNNMoney.com. Based in New York, Evans files market specific reports and provides custom live reports for approximately 800 CNN Newsource affiliates from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.
Evans joined CNN Newsource in June 2008. Previously, he anchored CBS Money Watch business reports and served as a national correspondent for CBS NewsPath. He reported for WNYW and WWOR in New York.
Evans reported for KNSD and KFMB in San Diego before moving to Los Angeles in 2003. In Los Angeles, he was a correspondent for CBS2 and KCAL on stories ranging from the death and state funeral for former president Ronald Reagan in 2004 to the devastating wildfires in 2003, 2005 and 2007.
In 2000 while at WAVY-TV in Norfolk, Va., Evans was honored with the Best In-Depth Reporting award from the Virginia Associated Press for a series showing how prisoners escaped from a Virginia prison. This series of reporting resulted in the restructuring of prison security.
A native of Hawaii, Evans began his television news career at the age of 15, shooting city council meetings for the cable access channel in Honolulu and after graduating high school, for KGMB-TV. He returned to KGMB-TV as a part-time reporter during his college breaks.
Evans is a graduate of Ithaca College where he studied journalism and philosophy.
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