Cynthia Vega has been with WFAA since the spring of 2000. She covered the police beat for a year and can now be seen five times a week as part of the Daybreak and Good Morning Texas team.

Cynthia was inspired to be a reporter by the PBS program Evening Magazine, which she watched while growing up in Boston. Her career choice was confirmed at Yale University, where she had the opportunity to give Linda Ellerbee, her role model, a tour of the campus. She subsequently titled her senior essay in American Studies, "To Be or Not To Be A Television Twinkie." (She chose not to be.) Before joining News 8, Cynthia was a freelance reporter for WHDH-TV in Boston, an anchor/reporter for WFTV-TV in Orlando, Fla., and an anchor, reporter and producer at KTSM-TV in El Paso.