Byron Pitts Net Worth

He became a correspondent for CBS Newspath in 1997 and in May 1998 became CBS News Correspondent first in Miami, then Atlanta, and then New York City in 2001. He served as a lead reporter for coverage of the September 11th, 2011 attacks and won an Emmy Award. Pitts was also an embedded reporter who covered the Iraq War. He has reported on Hurricane Katrina, the Elian Gonzalez story, and the refugee crisis in Kosovo. He also won an Emmy Award for covering the Chicago train wreck of 1999 and won a National Association of Black Journalists Award in 2002. In 2009 He wrote Step Out of Nothing: How Faith and Family Helped Me Conquer Life’s Challenges. Byron left CBS in March 2013 and currently works for ABC News.