Daniel Sieberg (‘00) has been nominated for an Emmy in the business and financial reporting category for Outstanding Coverage of a Current Business News Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast. The story aired on the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric on April 15, 2009.
The Big Impact of Micro-loans is about micro-loans for small business start-ups in impoverished countries.
“We spoke with a young man in Harlem who had invested some money in Microplace.com and targeted a portion of it to women entrepreneurs in Peru,” said Sieberg.
“We then went to Peru and met one of the women who received a portion of that money and watched as her small business was able to prosper as a result. Micro loans are an important story in the business world and we tried to do it justice.”
Sieberg joined CBS News in 2006 after six years with CNN, and 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 last year after garnering two Emmy nominations. “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, who grew up in Richmond, B.C., 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 personal 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).
