Guest Host, Pacific Time
Sydnie Kohara is a long-time TV producer, reporter and host. She has been most recently a host of CNBC's CNET News.com. She has also been its international correspondent in London, and covered markets from Frankfurt to Hong Kong, as well as Paris and other capitals. She was the anchor of CNBC's Asia Nightly News in Singapore. Her San Francisco roots extend to long periods with the ABC network and KGO-TV, where she also inaugurated the station's business show, Marketplace. She received the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award and the Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Reporting for coverage of the 1989 earthquake. A native of Louisiana, Sydnie Kohara graduated from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.