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Nikki Battiste has been a correspondent for CBS News based in New York City since 2018. Her reporting appears across all CBS News platforms and broadcasts, including CBS This Morning, CBS Evening News, and 48 Hours.  Battiste has also served as a substitute anchor on CBS News’ digital channel, CBSN. Battiste’s groundbreaking reporting and investigations into the Catholic Church sexual abuse scandal gained critical acclaim.  In a television first, her reporting led to two alleged clergy abuse survivors sitting down face-to-face with the priest they say abused them as children. During a separate investigation, Battiste questioned U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops President, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, about why a priest with sexual abuse allegations in his own Galveston-Houston Archdiocese was still in active ministry.  After the story aired, the priest was removed from ministry.  Two months after her exclusive interview with now former Washington, D.C. Cardinal Donald Wuerl, he resigned.  She also broke the sto