Undergraduate Alma Maters for Local Broadcast Journalists

We see many of these anchors and reporters on the televisions in our homes every day. While occasionally, especially regarding heated athletic rivalries that cross state lines, we do learn of where these news personalities received their undergraduate degrees, our local stations employ broadcast journalists who have graduated from colleges and universities across the country.

Here is a short list (in alphabetical order by last name) highlighting some of those campuses, both the well-known and the less publicized institutions of higher education:

• Greg Adaline (KCTV anchor) Oakland University

• Elizabeth Alex (KSHB anchor) University of Arkansas

• Mark Alford (WDAF anchor) University of Texas Austin

• Maria Antonia (KMBC anchor/reporter) University of Miami

• Mark Clegg (KSHB anchor) University of Texas Arlington

• Christa Dubill (KSHB anchor) University of Kansas

• Karen Fuller (KCTV anchor) Drake University

• Nick Griffith (KMBC sports reporter) Miami University of Ohio

• Loren Halifax (WDAF anchor) Abilene Christian University

• Sloane Heller (KSHB reporter) University of California Berkeley

• Susan Hiland (WDAF anchor) Missouri State University

• John Holt (WDAF anchor) University of Kansas

• Sherita Hutton (WDAF reporter) Texas Christian University

• Kelly Jones (KCTV anchor) Wayne State University

• Ryan Kath (KSHB reporter) Gustavus Adolphus College

• Kris Ketz (KMBC anchor) St. Ambrose University

• Jeanene Kiesling (KCTV reporter) Pittsburg State University

• Keith King (KSHB reporter/anchor) Eastern Illinois University

• Karen Kornacki (KMBC sports reporter) University of Denver

• Carolyn Long (KCTV anchor) Kent State University

• Larry Moore (KMBC anchor) University of Missouri Columbia

• Donna Pitman (KMBC anchor) University of Missouri Columbia

• Kathy Quinn (WDAF reporter) University of Missouri Kansas City

• Justin Robinson (KMBC reporter) Tulane University

• Larry Seward (KSHB reporter) Ohio University

• Lindsay Shively (KSHB reporter) University of Missouri Columbia

• Matt Stewart (KCTV anchor) Northwestern University

• Lance Veeser (KSHB sports reporter) Marshall University

• Brenda Washington (KMBC reporter) Avila University

• Betsy Webster (KCTV reporter) Wellesley College

• Phil Witt (WDAF anchor) University of Nebraska