IWMF Board of Directors
Ysabel
Duron, an award-winning journalist with 30 years in television broadcasting,
is an anchor for KRON-TV in San Francisco, where she began as a general
assignment reporter in 1990. In 1992 she was named anchor of Daybreak
Saturday/Sunday Morning.
She came to the station from WMAQ-TV, the NBC-owned and operated station in Chicago, where she won a team Emmy for her work on a breaking news story. Duron won her first Emmy reporting on the Patty Hearst kidnapping for KTVU in Oakland, Calif. in 1974.
Since joining KRON, Duron has won acclaim for two series. One was about her reunion with a son she gave up for adoption. The other was a 1998 three-part series on her own winning battle with cancer, which gained her national recognition from American Women in Radio and Television and an Excellence in Journalism award from the Society of Professional Journalists.