Hena Doba joined NewsNation in 2024 as the anchor of the weekend edition of Morning in America (Saturday and Sundays, 7-10 a.m. ET).
Prior to joining NewsNation, Ms. Doba served in various roles at Cheddar News for the past five years, including as host of Cheddar News’ Wake Up with Cheddar. Previously, she worked as an anchor and correspondent for CBS News where she led The National Desk with Hena Daniels from 2015 to 2019 covering national and international stories and reporting live from the New York Stock Exchange for CBS affiliates across the country.
Before CBS, she anchored the 11 p.m. newscast at WFSB-TV in Hartford, Connecticut and worked as a general assignment reporter at WTOC-TV in Savannah, Georgia and WGCL-TV in Atlanta, Georgia. In addition to broadcast television, Ms. Doba has served as an adjunct professor at the Connecticut School of Broadcasting and Capital Community College. She began her broadcasting career as a reporter at WWTI-TV ABC50 in Watertown, New York.
Ms. Doba holds two bachelor’s degrees in Psychology and English from the University at Buffalo. She was features editor for the university’s paper, The Spectrum before graduating in 2002.
