Dana Jacobson is a host and correspondent for CBS News who was born on November 5, 1971. Dana Jacobson was born and bred in Detroit, Michigan and had her education at Andover High School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
She also attended Valley High School in West Des Moines, Iowa, and graduated in 1989. Dana Jacobson also enrolled at the University of Michigan and graduated in 1993.
She earned a Bachelor of Arts in English and communications.
She joined CBS News in 2015 and currently serves as co-host for CBS Saturday Morning. Dana Jacobson is also an anchor & reporter for CBS Sports and CBS Sports Network.
Before she joined CBS News, Dana Jacobson was with ESPN between 2002 and 2012 and while at ESPN, she was named co-host of Cold Pizza which later became First Take. She was at the helm of affairs for First Take for some time but left on December 30, 2011, and resumed to anchoring SportsCenter.
Her final day at ESPN was on April 30, 2012 and she hosted SportsCenter for the last time.
She became the co-host of the Saturday edition of CBS This Morning alongside CBS correspondent Michelle Miller.
The first television job for Dana Jacobson was at WPBN/WTOM-TV. She worked as a fill-in news anchor and weekend sports anchor, producer, and editor. She also did some reports in Northern California and had the rare opportunity of profiling the likes of Mike Bibby, Chris Webber and Jason Williams.
She also worked at KXTV-TV and covered several sports events which included the NFL and NBA. Dana Jacobson hosted KXTV’s News10 Red Zone and from 1996 to 1998, she served as a sports reporter for KXTV’s Monday Night Football show.
Between 2000 and 2002, she hosted The NBA Insiders at KHTK-AM.
In 2005, she intermittently hosted Patrick’s show on ESPN Radio whenever he was not around and did the same for Mike Golic on the ESPN Radio show Mike and Mike in the Morning.
Some of the awards won by Dana Jacobson include Edward R. Murrow Award (2000) and National Headliner Award (1998). Dana Jacobson got married to Sean Grande on September 28, 2019.
Dana Jacobson First Husband
There isn’t information on whether Dana Jacobson had a first husband and who he was.
