Robin Meade anchors HLN’s morning show, Morning Express with Robin Meade, and also serves as co-host of AccentHealth, a Turner Private Network program focused on consumer-related health issues.

Among other stories, Meade anchored the network’s coverage of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. In 2008, at their request, she conducted the first interview with the three American hostages who had recently been liberated by a daring rescue mission. The trio had been held captive for five years in Colombia.

Before joining CNN, Meade worked at WMAQ-TV in Chicago, where she co-anchored the weekend newscasts, served as a general assignment correspondent and anchored the morning newscasts. During her tenure at WMAQ, she covered the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, including extensive reporting on the Centennial Olympic Park bombing. Meade won a regional Emmy Award for her coverage of the 1995 collision between a school bus and a train in Fox River Grove, Ill.

Prior to joining WMAQ-TV, Meade served as a morning news anchor, noon anchor and health reporter for WSVN-TV in Miami. She also worked as an anchor and reporter for television stations in Columbus, Ohio and Cleveland. Meade, who began her broadcasting career at WMFD-TV (in Mansfield, Ohio), was inducted into the Ohio Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 2005.