HANNAH KLIGER
TV REPORTER
Hannah is an award-winning Reporter and Multimedia Journalist for CBS New York, focusing her coverage on Brooklyn. Most days, she pitches, shoots, researches, writes, and edits her own reports.
For more than 8 years, Hannah has covered thousands of stories in her hometown of NYC, the nation’s top television news market, building an audience with her memorable, digestible, and creative work.
Hannah has received several awards for her enterprise journalism about problems plaguing Brooklynites, from hate crimes to housing rental scams.
Prior to joining WCBS in 2022, she spent 6 years as a general assignment and investigative reporter at News 12. Her reports for the network’s successful investigative series, “Hate at Home,” have earned her multiple accolades, including an Emmy, Murrow, and AP award. Her work also earned her the trust and respect of the communities she serves.
Hannah was born in Brooklyn to a family of Soviet dissidents from Russia, who fled persecution and censorship. Growing up in Coney Island, she decided to be a journalist from a young age. She speaks fluent Russian, and has deep ties to the community of immigrants from the former Soviet Union who call NYC home.
Prior to joining News 12, Hannah was an Associate Producer at the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment. In this role, she made editorial decisions on Emmy-award winning shows, pitched segment ideas, media managed video files and created rough cuts for editors.
Hannah graduated with honors from New York University with a major in Broadcast Journalism and Political Science. While there, she anchored and produced the university’s student-run newscast, NYU Tonight, and landed multiple competitive internships.
Her most impactful internship was her time at CBS 60 Minutes, where Hannah was heavily involved in a groundbreaking, award-winning report, Hidden Holocaust. She personally translated hours of exclusive testimonies, in her native Russian, from people who witnessed the atrocities of the Holocaust firsthand in small villages across Moldova, her father’s homeland.
Prior to that, Hannah was a production intern at MSNBC’s Morning Joe, where she briefed high-profile celebrities, politicians, and newsmakers for live in-studio interviews. She was also a political intern at NY1’s Inside City Hall, where she conducted pre-interviews, assisted during live broadcasts, and wrote hundreds of show teases.
During summers in college, she often served as an on-air contributor for Thunder 102, a country music radio station in the Catskills. While there, she broadcast live from the famous site of the 1969 Woodstock Festival. She still occasionally returns as a guest host for the morning shows.
She became a national champion in competitive ballroom dance at the age of 16. She has travelled the country for competitions, instructed children and adults, and performed in dozens of shows. Hannah studied musical theatre at Edward R. Murrow High School and appeared in multiple theatrical productions. In her free time, she enjoys gardening, playing musical instruments, figure skating, and skiing.
For more than 8 years, Hannah has covered thousands of stories in her hometown of NYC, the nation’s top television news market, building an audience with her memorable, digestible, and creative work.
Hannah has received several awards for her enterprise journalism about problems plaguing Brooklynites, from hate crimes to housing rental scams.
Prior to joining WCBS in 2022, she spent 6 years as a general assignment and investigative reporter at News 12. Her reports for the network’s successful investigative series, “Hate at Home,” have earned her multiple accolades, including an Emmy, Murrow, and AP award. Her work also earned her the trust and respect of the communities she serves.
Hannah was born in Brooklyn to a family of Soviet dissidents from Russia, who fled persecution and censorship. Growing up in Coney Island, she decided to be a journalist from a young age. She speaks fluent Russian, and has deep ties to the community of immigrants from the former Soviet Union who call NYC home.
Prior to joining News 12, Hannah was an Associate Producer at the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment. In this role, she made editorial decisions on Emmy-award winning shows, pitched segment ideas, media managed video files and created rough cuts for editors.
Hannah graduated with honors from New York University with a major in Broadcast Journalism and Political Science. While there, she anchored and produced the university’s student-run newscast, NYU Tonight, and landed multiple competitive internships.
Her most impactful internship was her time at CBS 60 Minutes, where Hannah was heavily involved in a groundbreaking, award-winning report, Hidden Holocaust. She personally translated hours of exclusive testimonies, in her native Russian, from people who witnessed the atrocities of the Holocaust firsthand in small villages across Moldova, her father’s homeland.
Prior to that, Hannah was a production intern at MSNBC’s Morning Joe, where she briefed high-profile celebrities, politicians, and newsmakers for live in-studio interviews. She was also a political intern at NY1’s Inside City Hall, where she conducted pre-interviews, assisted during live broadcasts, and wrote hundreds of show teases.
During summers in college, she often served as an on-air contributor for Thunder 102, a country music radio station in the Catskills. While there, she broadcast live from the famous site of the 1969 Woodstock Festival. She still occasionally returns as a guest host for the morning shows.
She became a national champion in competitive ballroom dance at the age of 16. She has travelled the country for competitions, instructed children and adults, and performed in dozens of shows. Hannah studied musical theatre at Edward R. Murrow High School and appeared in multiple theatrical productions. In her free time, she enjoys gardening, playing musical instruments, figure skating, and skiing.