Anchors/Reporters | | | Christina Grande reports for CBS 11 News at 10 p.m. on weeknights, and at 5 p.m., 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. on weekends. She joined the KTVA CBS 11 News crew in March 2008 after working for Anchorage's KIMO Ch. 12 as a general assignment reporter in Anchorage and Juneau. She graduated from San Francisco State University in 2006 with a degree in broadcast journalism and a minor in international relations. She also studied at the Danish School of Journalism in Aarhus, Denmark for six months in 2004, covering issues like Muslim immigration in Denmark and the Danish monarchy. She interned for Bay Area news stations KTVU Ch. 2 and KRON Ch. 4, as well as "Design Remix" and "Curb Appeal" on HGTV.
Corey Allen-Young can be seen reporting weeknights on KTVA CBS 11 News at 5, 6, and 10PM. Corey joined the CBS 11 family in June 2008, after working at KXD CBS News 13 in Fairbanks, Alaska as a news and sports anchor and reporter. Corey has also previously worked for the ABC KIMO affiliate in Anchorage and has done radio in the Anchorage, Bethel, and Fairbanks areas.
More.. Dianne Baker can be seen weeknights anchoring CBS 11 News at 6:00 and 10:00 p.m. Dianne joined KTVA in 2008. She moved to Alaska from Montana where she was the weekend anchor, producer and city government reporter for KTVQ, CBS since 2004. Her strong background in journalism also led her into the magazine world while in Montana. Dianne enjoyed writing monthly articles about issues important to women for the Yellowstone Valley Woman magazine. Her first job out of college was in her home state of Wyoming, where she was a producer for KCWY, NBC. Ms. Baker is a graduate of the University of Wyoming with a B.S. in Journalism.
More.. Christina Campbell is the Weekend Meteorologist for the 5:00, 6:00 and 10:00 p.m. news with Anchor Andrea Gusty. Christina joined KTVA in 1993, and has worked for them on and off as both a news reporter and a meteorologist since then. Because her uncle was news director for KBIM-TV in Roswell, New Mexico where Christina was born and raised, she has spent most of her life either behind a news camera or in front of it. However, she began her professional broadcast career in 1989, at WDJR-FM in Enterprise, Alabama where she was the station's news director. From there she went to KTVF-TV in Fairbanks to work as a news reporter and anchor for the 6 and 11 p.m. news. In 1991, she moved to Anchorage and began learning how to fly airplanes. It was there she discovered her love for weather. She immediately began pursuing her meteorology credentials.
More.. Matt Felling serves KTVA and Anchorage as the 6:00 p.m. anchor and general reporter. He also serves as the host of KTVA's "View from the Hill with Matt Felling." The Washington Post named him one of "Alaska's Best Political Reporters" in 2009, and the only broadcaster.
He joined CBS 11 after a decade of news reporting, commentary and analysis inside the Washington, DC Beltway. Before heading north, he was the Editor of CBSNews.com's "Public Eye" section, regular guest host of WAMU's "Kojo Nnamdi Show" and Media Director of the non-profit, non-partisan Center for Media and Public Affairs. His writings have been published in the American Journalism Review, Christian Science Monitor, San Francisco Chronicle, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the San Diego Union-Tribune.
More.. Andrea Gusty can be seen anchoring CBS 11 News at 5pm with Dave Stroh Monday through Friday, and reporting at 10pm on Thursdays. She is also an investigative reporter for the Eye Team (I-Team) Investigates franchise. A graduate of the Medill Journalism School at Northwestern University, Andrea earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Broadcast Journalism, and returned home to Alaska in 2005 to pursue her dreams of reporting on Alaska Native issues in the mainstream media. Andrea is the recipient of three Alaska Broadcaster's Association Awards in the Best Feature, Best Feature Series, and Uniquely Alaskan categories. She also received a Native American Journalist's Association Award for exploring the impacts of methamphetamines on women in Montana's prisons.
More.. Grace Jang can be seen anchoring the weekend newscasts at 5:00, 6:00 and 10:00 p.m. Her reports on community issues can be seen during the week. Grace joined KTVA in March 2007. Her prior broadcast experience includes work at a Los Angeles-based cable news program. She spent most of her career as a print journalist - with newspaper, wire service and magazine experience at the Los Angeles Times, Associated Press, City News Service and KoreAm Journal. Grace holds Bachelor's degrees in History and Communication from UC San Diego. She ditched graduate studies in history at the University of Chicago to pursue journalism full-time.
More.. Lauren Maxwell can be seen weekday mornings at 6:00 a.m. on CBS 11 News This Morning with morning meteorologist Mitch Sego. Lauren has been working in television in Anchorage for 21 years -- all of them right here at KTVA. Prior to that she worked as a radio news reporter for Anchorage radio station KFQD. During her long career, Lauren has won numerous local and national awards including many from the Alaska Broadcaster's Association. Lauren has two children, is active in the community and is proud to have called Anchorage home since 1982.
More.. Karina Petersen can be seen most weeknights on CBS 11 News at 5, 6, and 10pm and on weekends. Karina gladly joined the CBS 11 News team in July 2008. She came from KOMU-TV 8 News, an NBC affiliate in Columbia, Missouri where she spent two years reporting. While in Missouri, she was honored to receive the 2008 Missouri Mental Health Awareness Media Award for a story on suicide prevention.
More.. Mitch Sego is our meteorologist for CBS 11 News This Morning, which is weekday mornings starting at 6:00 p.m. He co-anchors the show with Lauren Maxwell. Mitch arrived at 11 News in May 2007. Before coming to Alaska, he worked as a meteorologist for OU Nightly and News4Norman, both student produced, full-length newscast at the University of Oklahoma. It was at the University of Oklahoma that Mitch earned his B.S. in Geosciences from the School of Meteorology, along with minors in Broadcast Journalism and Spanish in 2007. He is currently in the process of receiving the prestigious Certified Broadcast Meteorologist (CBM) recognition, awarded by the American Meteorological Society.
More.. Brett Shepard can be seen Monday through Friday on CBS 11 News at 5:00 p.m. with Dave Stroh and Andrea Gusty, at 6:00 p.m. with Matt Felling, and with Dianne Baker at 10:00 p.m. Brett joined the CBS 11 Weather Department in October 2002. He began as a Weekend Meteorologist/Reporter, then moved on to CBS 11 News This Morning. In May 2007, he became Chief Meteorologist at the station. He joined the CBS 11 News team right out of college. Brett attended Western Illinois University and earned a degree in meteorology with a minor in broadcasting.
More.. Matthew Simon can currently be seen reporting weeknights on CBS 11 News at 5:00 and 6:00 p.m. He is the station's Senior Reporter, covering our political beat, heading up the Cancer Connection community service program and campaign, occasionally filling in on the anchor desk, and during elections provides analysis as returns are learned.
More.. Dave Stroh can be seen weeknights anchoring CBS 11 News at 5:00 p.m. Dave joined KTVA in 1995. His prior and current experience includes work as a long time Anchorage radio personality at KKLV FM, KHAR AM 590, KFQD AM 750 and now as program director and midday host on KOOL 97.3 FM. In 25 years of reporting, Dave has covered the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the Gulf War, deadly Siberian cold fronts, volcanic eruptions and numerous gubernatorial elections. He has won numerous awards for his work, including the Alaska Broadcaster Association's Best TV Newscast Award for 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Dave also received the Alaska Press Club Award for best TV Newscast at 5 p.m. in 2003.
More.. Todd Walker is a reporter for CBS 11 News at 10:00 p.m. weekdays and weekends at 5:00, 6:00, and 10:00 p.m. He came to CBS 11 in May of 2008 from cross-town rival KTUU where he was a producer, among a million other things. Todd grew up as an "Army Brat," moving every few years, but has claimed Alaska as home since this is where he has been the longest. He first moved to the Last Frontier in 1996 and is proud to be a UAA Seawolf. The TV news bug bit Todd at an early age. His first job in high school was at WOI-TV, the ABC affiliate in Des Moines, IA, as a studio camera operator. It was there that he got his first taste of the news world, spending late nights in the studio covering tornados in Central Iowa.
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