WHITNEY CASEY (Whitney, this is your life.)

HOST AND SENIOR PRODUCER

GREAT DAY HOUSTON

Great Day Houston

From Presidents, Kings and Princes to Paris Hilton and Puff Daddy, Whitney has talked with them. Now, as the Emmy Award-Winning host to Houston’s premier morning talk show, Houstonians will get a chance to swap stories. Her experiences working in New York City with a number of national and local fashion, lifestyle and entertainment magazines, have branded her as somewhat of a “Carrie Bradshaw” type character (Sex and the City). In fact, you will still be able to find her “relationship advice” in the pages of Star and Celebrity Living Magazines.

Before print, it was television that put Whitney on the media map. As one of CNN’s youngest correspondents, she burst onto the national stage reporting for the 24 hour news network and sharing “Headline News” anchoring duties. During her tenure as a television news journalist, she has been live-on-the-scene for a number of the country’s most gripping breaking news stories including the September 11th terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the Space Shuttle Columbia tragedy, the crash of American Airlines Flight 587, the Anthrax Investigations, the Elian Gonzalez custody battle and the Florida 2000 Presidential Election recounts.

Journalism was her forte however, a foray on the Red Carpet awaited. Whitney has covered the Emmy, Grammy and Tony Award shows. In addition to Hollywood superstars, she has interviewed a number of the world’s most influential people from politicians and CEO’s to top athletes and artists. Some of the headliners include former Presidents George Bush and Bill Clinton, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Apple founder Steve Jobs, King Abdullah II of Jordan, actors Tom Hanks and John Travolta and other celebrities such as Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters and Indianapolis Quarterback Peyton Manning.

Whitney also has international work experience in the Middle East and Europe. In July of 2004, she was invited by Prince Albert of Monaco to lead a panel of the world’s top media leaders in an international media ethics debate held in Monte Carlo. Additionally, Whitney has worked with the World Economic Forum in Geneva, Switzerland, assisting in the creation of the Forum of Young Global Leaders. She attended the Forum’s Arab Summit at the Dead Sea in Jordan working closely with King Abdullah and Queen Rania.

Before working at an international level, Whitney anchored for ABC News in New York where she read newsbreaks and hosted and produced “Politics Live,” a daily political show which also aired live in Times Square, on digital TV and the Internet. As part of the ABC family, she wrote a column called “Whitticisms” for Page 2, a popular pop-culture section on ESPN.com. She has also worked as a correspondent at CBS’s flagship station in New York and prior to that, for NBC in Miami.

Whitney began her career anchoring and reporting for the Fox affiliate in Macon, GA. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia, where, as a pre-med student she holds a BS in Exercise Science and was honored as an Academic All-American in Volleyball.