Daniel Sieberg was nominated in the business and financial reporting categories of the Emmy Awards for a story he completed on food labels for CBS Sunday Morning and a group reporting effort for the business edition on Polaroid’s re-structuring. 
Sieberg, who joined CBS News in 2006 after six years with CNN, was a graduate of the School of Journalism’s inaugural class almost a decade ago.
“As they say, it’s flattering just to be nominated,” said Sieberg, who missed out on winning an Emmy.
“It’s something that makes me think back to how I got started in journalism, and it was the emphasis on real-world experience instilled by the School that gave me the confidence to push my career forward once I graduated.”
Sieberg tops off an impressive list of alumni from the past decade who have gone on to great success. His nomination coincided with the School’s 10th anniversary, which is being celebrated in a number of talks throughout the year.
Sieberg recalls that being part of the first journalism class at UBC was “pretty special.”
“We formed bonds between students but also with the faculty,” he said. “In just two years they helped whittle my unfocused enthusiasm into an area of specialized reporting that has served me well.” 
Sieberg, who grew up in Richmond, BC, and now lives in New York City, got his big break with a personal story on being hacked that he wrote while at the School at the beginning of the tech boom. He won the School’s Rafe Mair Award for excellence in journalism for the story.
During his graduate studies, he worked as a reporter for The Vancouver Sun (1998-2000) covering civic issues, local businesses and technology. He was also a video game reviewer for CTV Vancouver and an associate producer for Vancouver Television (VTV) (1999-2000).
Currently, Sieberg reports and contributes to the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, The Early Show, and CBS Sunday Morning. He also writes a regular blog, Tech Talk, for CBSNews.com, hosts a weekly radio segment called “SciEye” for CBS Radio News and contributes a perrsonal technology column to Oprah.com. Sieberg also co-hosts “G Word” with SuChin Pak, a daily program about environmental concepts and personalities, for Discovery Channel’s Planet Green network.
He is a previous recipient of a Peabody Award for his role in CNN’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina (2005) and he contributed to CNN’s Emmy Award-winning documentary, “Enemy Within” (2002).
