Ysabel Duron is an award-winning journalist with more than 30 years in television broadcasting. In 1997 she was inducted into the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences’ “Silver Circle” for more than 27 years of meritorious work as a journalist.

Duron is a weekend anchor of “KRON 4 News Daybreak.” She joined KRON 4 as a general assignment reporter in 1990. She became “Daybreak” weekend anchor in 1992. She came to the station from WMAQ-TV, the NBC-owned-and-operated station in Chicago, where she reported and anchored “Channel 5 News at Sunrise” for four years. While at WMAQ, she won a team Emmy for breaking news coverage of the Laurie Dann School shooting.

Locally, Duron has also worked at KTVU-TV in Oakland, where she won her first Emmy award in 1974 for her reporting of the Patty Hearst kidnapping. She was honored again in 1982 while working as a reporter/anchor at KICU-TV in San Jose. There, her four-part series “Trouble with Teachers” won the John Swett Award for Media Excellence, the highest award given by the California Teachers Association. The same series was also honored by the Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA) of Northern California. Since joining KRON 4, Duron has garnered public acclaim with two award-winning series. “The Child I Never Held,” a 1991 series about Duron’s reunion with a son she gave up for adoption, was honored by the RTNDA. The second series, 1998’s “Life with Cancer,” focused on Duron’s winning battle with cancer, and gained her national recognition, an honorable mention from the American Women in Radio and Television’s Gracie Awards, and an Excellence in Journalism Award from the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists.

In May 2000 Duron was presented with a Governor’s Citation from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences of Northern California for her commitment to journalism.

Much of Duron’s career has been in the Bay Area, and she has won many accolades from community and Latino groups. But her journalism interests have also taken her beyond the Bay Area to Mexico, Chile and Argentina as a board member of the International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF), working to create a network of Latina journalists. The IWMF, based in Washington, D.C., works to empower female journalists around the world, believing the world is not truly free unless women have a full voice.

A native of Salinas, California, Duron received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from San Jose State University. She was named one of America’s top 100 Hispanic Women in Communications by Hispanic USA Magazine. In addition to the IWMF, she is also a member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.

Duron is a 1990 fellow of the National Hispana Leadership Institute in Washington, D.C. She is president of the board of Las Isabelas, a unique Santa Clara County non-profit that provides support services to Latinas with breast cancer, targeting low-income Spanish-speaking women. Duron is also a board member of Ballet San Jose of Silicon Valley.