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Michelle Charlesworth (born June 7, 1970) is an American television news reporter and anchor. Since 1998 she has been a reporter for both ABC News and WABC-TV, as well as a weekend morning anchor for WABC-TV’s Eyewitness News.
She is best known for an award-winning series of reports about her battle with skin cancer, which aired on both WABC-TV and ABC’s Good Morning America. A dermatologist was being interviewed on the air by Charlesworth and thought a mark on her face was basal cell carcinoma, which a biopsy later confirmed.
Charlesworth was born in Durham where she lived until she was twelve years old. Her father James H. Charlesworth is a professor at Duke University.
An alumna of Princeton High School in Princeton, New Jersey, she graduated from Duke University with a Bachelor of Arts in public policy and studied economics in a graduate program on a full scholarship from the German government at the University of Freiburg.
She worked as an anchor and reporter for WNCN-TV in North Carolina from 1996 to 1998, and also at WABC-TV.
She was recently on a long list of WABC-TV reporters in line to replace fired Eyewitness News This Morning co…
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