Media Moves

McBride swaps Washington’s CBS affiliate for Newsmax

Sharla McBride

[Editor’s note: Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Newsmax over the right-wing network’s airing of 2020 election lies is scheduled to go to trial in late September 2024.]

Sharla McBride has joined Newsmax as co-host of “Wake Up America.” Since March 2020, she has been a sports and news anchor at WUSA-TV Ch. 9, a CBS affiliate in Washington D.C.

Previously, McBride held the posts of sports anchor/reporter and evening news anchor at ABC station WNEP-TV Ch. 16 in Scranton, Pa. She was a sports anchor at NBC Sports Philadelphia and worked as a sports reporter at KTXS-TV Ch. 12, an ABC and CW Plus affiliate in Sweetwater, Texas.

An Emmy-winning journalist, McBride graduated from the University of Georgia.

Mariam Ahmed

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