Paula Ebben

Award-winning journalist Paula Ebben co-anchors WBZ-TV News at 5PM with co-anchor Jonathan Elias and Chief Meteorologist Todd Gutner. She also co-anchors WBZ News at Noon with co-anchor David Wade, and she reports across WBZ-TV’s newscasts.

A Central Massachusetts native raised in Shrewsbury, Ebben previously worked as an anchor and reporter at New England Cable News. Before joining NECN, Ebben was an anchor and reporter at WGMC-TV in Worcester.

Ebben has been nominated for multiple New England Emmy Awards for Anchor, Consumer Reporter and for Writing. In 2005, Ebben received a regional RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Feature Reporting. In 2011, she was chosen to report for all CBS stations from The Royal Wedding in London, England.

Ebben graduated cum laude from Boston College with a BA degree in English. Ebben serves on the Board of Trustees of her alma mater, Notre Dame Academy in Worcester. She also serves on the Advisory Board for REACH Beyond Domestic Violence and does volunteer work for Bridge Over Troubled Waters, the Boston College Alumni Board of Directors, the Women’s Alumni Mentoring Program at Boston College, Newton Country Day School of the Sacred Heart and The Roxbury Latin School.

Ebben and her husband reside in the Greater Boston area with their four children.

Boston’s WBZ-TV is owned and operated by CBS Television Stations, a division of CBS Corporation.