60-year-old Troy Roberts is an American television news reporter known for 48 Hours Mystery.
He worked as a correspondent for 48 Hours Mystery which is an American documentary television show.
48 Hours Mystery is a revamping of 48 Hours which is broadcasted on CBS and has been so since January 19, 1988 and is one of only two first-run prime-time shows on any major U.S. broadcast television network.
48 Hours turned into 48 Hours Mystery in 2004 after it had been revamped into 48 Hours Investigates previously.
It then became a single-topic format not presented by a single host but by whichever reporter is assigned to the story.
Roberts is one of these reporters and has been working for the show since its inception and is one of the most well-liked and respected reporters on the team due to his experience and knowledge.
Who Are Troy Roberts’ Parents?
Troy Roberts was born to his parents, Robert Roberts and Ellen Roberts on September 9, 1962.
Not a lot is known about Roberts’ parents other than they lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which is where Roberts was born.
The amount of information from between his birth and his college life is very sparse, alongside the information about his childhood.
The information resumes with Roberts graduating from the University of California, Berkeley in 1984.
He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Political Science in 1984 and started working promptly in 1985.
He currently lives in New York City, but once again any information about his personal life is guarded, and the media or his fans do not know anything about his marital life.
As he also does not use social media, most information is sparse.
Troy Roberts Is An American Reporter
As stated above, Troy Roberts started his professional career in 1985 as a host and producer of KPIX-TV.
KPIX-TV is a San-Francisco-based CNS Television company where Roberts worked from 1985 to 1987.
After leaving this job, he started working as a reporter for KATU-TV, a portland based channel.
His first big break came when he moved to New York in 1990 to work for another CBS affiliate station called WCBS-TV.
At this channel, she started reporting for Channel 2’s The Morning, and even anchored local news segments for the official CBS Morning News.
His years of hard work paid off when he joined CBS News in 1993 and started co-anchoring the overnight broadcast, Up to the Minute.
In Up to the Minute, he started interviewing various newsmakers and personalities.
For a solid year, from 1995 through 1996, he was also a co-anchor for CBS Morning News.
He started working for CBS’s 48 Hours in 1998, and the role has won him an Emmy Award.
While working for 48 Hours he has covered many national and international stories with some of the most famous being the tragedy at Newtown, Conn. elementary school, Aurora, Colorado movie theatre, and many more.
His most prominent stories include the rise in hate crimes, an investigation into cults, international adoption scams, and the events of 9/11.
He has also reported on natural disasters like hurricanes, tornadoes, and earthquakes.
However, not all of his reporting relate to heavy topics, with some lighter fare being in the mix like the Royal Wedding and dog sledding.
Troy Roberts And His Many Awards
As stated above, Troy Roberts has won many awards in his career, with the most prominent one being an Emmy award.
He has won two Emmy awards to be specific, with the first being in the 90s.
This Emmy award was for his coverage of the 1996 Olympic Summer Games in Atlanta alongside the bombing that the event suffered through.
He won another Emmy in 2013 when he did an award-winning report on the capture and preceding manhunt of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects.
Lastly, he has won an Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia Award, which he won for being part of the team that covered the NEwton, Conn. elementary school shooting.
Alongside his winning the award, that coverage gave CBS News as a whole a 2014 Du-Pont-Columbia award.
Aside from awards, Roberts is famous for having worked in almost every area that CBS news has and has become a veritable giant in the company and the industry.