She has worked in radio and television broadcasting for more than two decades, including prime time news anchor positions at several TV stations.
[1] She and two colleagues at WDSU-TV received regional Emmy awards for the documentary A Grave Injustice,[2] on the theft of artifacts from New Orleans historic cemeteries.
Roesgen was a classical music disc jockey, worked on the local show Getting There, and filed news stories for NPR's national broadcasts.
Other significant stories she covered for CNN include the Jena Six events in Louisiana,[11] the Drew Peterson case,[12][13][14] and the death of Michael Jackson.
[15][16][17] Roesgen's coverage of the 2009 Red River flood in Fargo, North Dakota, in which she "talks to the camera while passing sandbags and riding a forklift" according to one observer, was mocked by Jon Stewart on Comedy Central's The Daily Show.