Christine Chubbuck (August 24, 1944 – July 15, 1974) was an American television news reporter who committed suicide during a live television broadcast. Born in Hudson, Ohio, Christine Chubbuck attended the Laurel School for Girls in nearby Shaker Heights. During her years at Laurel, she started a small tongue-in-cheek group called the "Dateless Wonder Club".

She attended Miami University in Oxford, Ohio for one year, majoring in theatre arts, then attended Endicott College in Beverly, Massachusetts before earning a degree in broadcasting at Boston University in 1965. She worked for WVIZ in Cleveland, Ohio for a year in 1966-67,and attended a summer workshop in radio and television at New York University in 1967. Also in 1967, Chubbuck worked for a few months for public television stations in Pittsburgh and Canton, Ohio before moving on to spend four years as a hospital computer operator and two years with a cable television firm in Sarasota, Florida.

Immediately before joining WXLT-TV (now WWSB), she worked in the traffic department of WTOG in St. Petersburg, Florida. Several years before her death, Chubbuck had moved into the family's summer cottage on Siesta Key, Florida.

The Washington Post would later report that her painted bedroom and canopied bed looked like a young teenager's. After the divorce of her parents, Chubbuck's mother Peg and younger brother Greg came to live in the Florida home. When Greg left, her elder brother Timothy moved in.

She had a close relationship with her family, describing her mother and Greg as her closest friends.

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