Linda Alvarez Prepares To Sign Off

Emmy-winning CBS2/KCAL9 reporter and anchor Linda Alvarez, who became the first Latina to helm an English-language Los Angeles weekday newscast in 1986, will sign off the air for good after the CBS 2 broadcast at 11 p.m. Sunday night.
"We are sad to see her go," said Don Corsini, president and chief executive of the two stations, "but understand and respect her desire to start spending more time with her husband Leo and enjoying the finer things in life."

Linda Alvarez was born and raised in Los Angeles. She graduated from UCLA and joined the CBS 2 team in 1993. In 2003, Alvarez spent a month as an embedded reporter in Iraq.

In addition to winning 12 local Emmys, she has received several Golden Mike Awards from the Los Angeles Press Club and has been awarded numerous accolades from other groups, including the YWCA of Los Angeles, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and Big Sisters of Los Angeles.

After working as a teacher and administrator in Los Angeles, Venezuela, Chicago, Connecticut and New York, she started her career in television news at WMAQ in Chicago and worked at KPNX in Phoenix, where she was also an executive producer.