Anchors & Reporters

Linda Stouffer is a news anchor for CNN Headline News, the "real news; real fast" network designed especially for viewers who need current information to comply with their urgent schedules. Based in CNN's world headquarters in Atlanta, Stouffer joined CNN in 1997.

Stouffer and co-anchor Chuck Roberts report weekdays from 3-6 p.m. (ET) and provide users with live interviews with key newsmakers and up-to-the-minute news coverage. Stouffer has been on-air live reporting on the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and has covered the unfolding event as the crisis moved from search-and-rescue mission to a war on terrorism.

Previously, Stouffer co-anchored the morning news program Ahead of the Curve, which aired simultaneously on CNN/U.S. and CNNfn, CNN's financial network.

During Stouffer's tenure with CNN, she has anchored coverage of the post-election saga over the disputed presidential ballots in Florida and the ongoing developments in the Middle East crisis. She also participated in CNN Headline News' millennium news coverage, reporting on the first few times zones entering 2000.

Before working for the CNN News Group, Stouffer was a general assignment reporter and weekend anchor for WSVN-TV in Miami from 1994-1996 and reported on the ValuJet crash in the Florida Everglades and Cuba's shoot down of the Brothers to the Rescue planes. She also worked as a general assignment reporter from 1992-1994 at KMOL-TV in San Antonio, Texas where she covered, from day one, the Branch Davidian standoff in Waco, Texas.

Stouffer attended the University of the Incarnate Word on a Phi Beta Kappa scholarship and earned a bachelor's degree in communication, graduating magna cum laude.