Corderi was a reporter with
The Miami News, a defunct afternoon newspaper. She then began as a reporter for
WPLG-TV in Miami in 1982. Corderi covered the 1985 8.0 magnitude
earthquake in Chile for
CBS News. At CBS, she served as a correspondent for the
news magazines
48 Hours and
Street Stories and as
news anchor for the
CBS Morning News, as well as anchoring
CBS Newsbreaks in between programming. In September 1992, Corderi was hired by
WABC-TV as a reporter and anchor. Her primary responsibility was serving as the co-anchor for the station's new midday newscast, pairing her with either of the two morning news anchors at the time,
Edye Tarbox and Tim Fleischer. Corderi left after eighteen months. Corderi was employed at
NBC News starting in 1994 as a correspondent for
Dateline NBC, initially under a novel job-sharing arrangement with fellow reporter Lisa Rudolph. Corderi is a recipient of the Las Primeras Award for being one of the first Hispanic network anchors. She is listed in ''Who's Who Among Hispanic Americans''. She is also a recipient of the
Gerald Loeb Award bestowed by the
UCLA Anderson School of Management. She has received three national news
Emmys and a
George Foster Peabody Award for Excellence in Journalism. She is also a 1997 recipient of the
Edward R. Murrow Award for
investigative journalism. ==References==