Carol Fowler is Vice President/News Director for CBS 2 Chicago. She joined the station in September 2002. Under Fowler's leadership, CBS 2 has significantly expanded its commitment to local news with the addition of the 6:00 PM newscasts during the week, weekend morning newscasts on Saturdays and Sundays, and the launch of the 11:00 AM News in September 2004.

Fowler's guidance has garnered many impressive industry awards for CBS 2. The station's 6:00 PM News was named the Best Newscast in Illinois by the Associated Press, two years in a row (2003, 2004). In 2006, the station won 10 local Emmy Awards including Outstanding Achievement for Station Excellence. This was the third such honor for CBS 2 in 2006. In April, the Associated Press named CBS 2 Outstanding News Operation and in September, CBS 2 won a national Emmy Award for spot news.

Prior to working at CBS 2, Fowler was the news director at WGN-TV (1999-2002). At WGN, Fowler supervised the station's transition to a digital newsroom in August 2000. It was the first television news operation in Chicago to convert entirely to non-linear editing and server playback.

She joined WGN in 1994 as managing editor, and was later promoted to assistant news director (1997-99). Before that, she worked at WLS-TV, where she joined as a newswriter and quickly moved into producing the station's late-afternoon newscasts (1989-94).

Fowler also served as an award-winning on-air reporter, covering the Illinois legislature for WCIA-TV in Champaign and WMBD-TV in Peoria, as well as serving as Springfield bureau chief (1980-89). A native of Jackson, Mississippi, she began her broadcasting career as a radio news reporter for WOW-AM in Omaha, Nebraska.

Fowler graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia with a Bachelor of Journalism degree. She and her husband, David, have two daughters.