Duthiers at Place de la Bourse, Brussels, reporting on the terrorist attacks, March 2016.
CBS News correspondent Vladimir Duthiers ’91 is on the scene. From Brussels to Paris, Ferguson, Nigeria, and the Middle East, this Peabody and Emmy award-winning journalist is there, focusing the world’s attention, and giving voice to the voiceless. He has also interviewed presidents and CEOs, profiled NBA stars, and flown with the Navy’s Blue Angels.
The son of Haitian immigrants, he still draws on his URI experiences—from his ROTC training to his political science courses to his work for the student newspaper and radio station. “I learned a lot about the way countries work, how the things you see on the surface are not necessarily what is going on behind the scenes.”
Duthiers worked at CNN for fellow URI alum Christiane Amanpour ’83, later for Anderson Cooper, and as an international correspondent in Nigeria.
Duthiers is part of the team delivering the first look at the day’s top stories for “CBS This Morning” and also serves as anchor for CBSN, the 24/7 digital streaming network from CBS News. Since joining CBS News in 2014, his investigative and feature stories have run on all CBS News platforms.
Equally comfortable in the field or at the anchor desk, this URI graduate is reporting important stories that the world needs to hear.
Duthiers, who was URI’s 2017 Commencement speaker and the recipient of an honorary degree, is an active Rhody alumnus. He serves on the executive advisory board of the University’s Harrington School of Communication and Media.