Christie Diez is a reporter for the Emmy-award winning morning show Morning Rush, an anchor for 11Alive Weekend Mornings and creator of the weekly series Behind the Headline.

Christie was selected for the 11Alive Team in July 2017. She has distinguished herself as a multi-skilled journalist, who finds, writes, shoots, and edits all her own stories. She honed her skills as an anchor and reporter during her five years in Augusta at the CBS/NBC station WRDW/WAGT.

As the only live reporter on location, she was an integral part of the newscast awarded 2018’s EMMY for Best Morning Newscast for coverage of Category 5 Hurricane Michael in the Gulf of Mexico.

She has garnered one-on-one interviews with civil rights icon Ambassador Andrew Young on his return to the pulpit, Attorney General Chris Carr on Atlanta’s sex trafficking epidemic, and interviewed students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School during the March for Our Lives in Washington, D.C. Her award-winning investigation into a fatal fire at a retirement community helped change standards for building codes in the Augusta area.

She has field-anchored from Augusta National during the Masters, joined the Runner Cam Team for the Peachtree Road Race, and documented one group’s historic ride to cheer on the University of Georgia Bulldogs in the Rose Bowl on a charter bus to Pasadena, California. Using a headlamp, she shot and edited all her stories while on the bus for 37 straight hours.

Her stories have received awards from Associated Press Media Editors for Best General Reporting, Best Specialized Reporting, Best Sports Feature, Best Feature Reporting, and Best Sports Program.

Christie graduated magna cum laude from the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism with a minor in Spanish. She pours her heart into whatever she’s covering to bring you the story from a comprehensive perspective.