Rebecca Hurtado Fairweather is a journalist at CBS News New York, where she works the assignment desk covering breaking news across the tri-state area. She also serves as a social media moderator for Morning Brew.

Fairweather began her journalism career at UC Santa Barbara, reporting for the campus television station and the Santa Barbara Independent, where she hosted The Indy podcast. She also completed a foreign correspondence internship with IEI Media in Berlin, receiving mentorship from veteran journalists Barbara Demick and Nomi Morris and reporting on colonialism and climate change.

Before CBS News, she spent nearly a decade as a Youth Spokesperson for the UN Foundation's Girl Up campaign, earning appearances on Good Morning America and CNN.

She holds degrees in Political Science and International Relations from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is a member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.

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