KTVA - On-air Staff - Current On-air and Management Staff

Current On-air and Management Staff

Update: Following the announcement on KTVA.com on April 18, 2012 that morning and weekend newscasts were being suspended immediately, KTVA removed the following news team bios from their website: Dave Stroh (anchor), Katie Paglini(anchor), Nicole Doughterty (weather), Janessa Webb (weather) and Christina Campell (weather).

Anchor

• Dave Stroh - Weeknights at 5 p.m. A long-time Anchorage radio personality, he joined KTVA in 1995 and has since won numerous awards for his work. Stroh is a morning DJ (Super Dave) and Program Director for KEAG-FM, "KOOL 97.3," owned by the Anchorage Media Group, in Anchorage, where he has worked for more than 17 years.
• Grace Jang - Weeknights at 6 p.m. (with co-anchor Sean Doogan) and 10 p.m.(also "Eye Team" investigative reporter). She joined the CBS 11 News team in March 2007. She came to KTVA with considerable print journalism experience, including positions with the Los Angeles Times, Associated Press, KoreAm Journal, and City News Service. Born in Busan, South Korea, her family migrated to the U.S. when she was a young child, and she was raised in San Francisco, California. Jang broke new ground in 2011 by tweeting the testimony from the courthouse during a riveting murder trial in Anchorage and has received numerous awards for journalistic achievements, including:

• Best Breaking News Story, 2010, Alaska Broadcasters Assn.: "Officer Shot".
• Best News Story, 2007, Alaska Broadcasters Association.
• International Affairs Reporting 1st Place, New California Media (NCM), “The Ethnic Pulitzers,” 2005

• Alexis Fernandez - Weekend anchor at 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. and general assignment reporter. Joined the CBS 11 News team in June 2010 after working as a morning anchor and reporter for KTVF-TV, an NBC affiliate in Fairbanks, Alaska. Fernandez was born and raised in Fairbanks.
• Katie Paglini - Weekday mornings at 6 a.m., produces and anchors "CBS 11 News This Morning." A Chicago native and Northwestern University graduate, she has lived in Alaska since April 2009 and came to KTVA from KTVF-TV, Channel 11, an NBC affiliate in Fairbanks.

Reporters

• Corey Allen-Young - General assignment reporter. A lifelong Alaskan, he joined the CBS 11 News family in June 2008 after working at KXD CBS News 13 in Fairbanks, Alaska, as an anchor and reporter.
• Heather Hintze - General assignment reporter. A Montana native, she joined the CBS News team in November 2011 after having spent the past four years working at KEZI-TV in Eugene, Oregon.
• Lauren Maxwell - General assignment reporter seen weeknights on KTVA CBS 11 News at 5 p.m., having joined the news team 21 years ago. Prior to that she worked as a radio news reporter for Anchorage radio station KFQD. She has won numerous local and state awards during her long broadcast career, including many from the Alaska Broadcasters' Association.
• Bill McAllister - General assignment reporter. Bill has more than three decades of experience in journalism and mass communications. He is the recipient of numerous awards from the Alaska Press Club, the Alaska Broadcasters' Association, the Society of Professional Journalists, and Capitolbeat, the national organization of statehouse reporters.
• Kirsten Swann - General assignment reporter. She came to KTVA in June 2011 after working as a print journalist for the Alaska Policy Forum and the Anchorage Daily Planet covering government affairs.

Skytracker Weather Team

• KTVA bills itself as the "Home of Alaska's Only 7 Day Forecast."
• Brett Shepard - Chief Meteorologist; weeknights at 5, 6 and 10 p.m. Joined the CBS 11 Weather Department in October 2002 right after graduating from Western Illinois University with a degree in metereology and a minor in broadcasting. He became Chief Metereologist in May 2007.
• Nicole Dougherty - Meteorologist; weekends at 5, 6 and 10 p.m. She joined KTVA in September 2011 from the USAF at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson.
• Janessa Webb - Meteorologist; mornings on "KTVA CBS 11 News This Morning." Joined the CBS 11 News family in October 2011 after working at affiliate Fox News 4 and ABC 13 (Coastal Television) in Anchorage as a news, sports and weather anchor. Webb is a graduate of East High School in Anchorage and Wintson-Salem State University, North Carolina.
• Christina Campbell - Meteorologist; fill-in for both weekday and weekend broadcasts. Joined KTVA in 1993.

Sports team

• The station does not operate a sports department.

Management

• Brendan Joel Kelley - Managing Editor and City Government Reporter. Joined KTVA on November 27, 2011 after previously working as Editor for the Anchorage Press, a weekly alternative newspaper.
• Sean Doogan - Managing Editor. Responsible for CBS 11 News' day-to-day content. Anchors weeknights at 6 p.m. with Grace Jang and occasionally reports weeknights as a general assignment reporter. Before joining KTVA in October 2010, Doogan was co-producer and co-anchor of the "Channel 2 News Morning Edition" for KTUU in Anchorage.
• Staci Feger-Pellessier - News Director - since 2004. Previously, was News Director for WMAR-TV, ABC-2 News, Baltimore, MD., 2000-2002; Assistant News Director for WHDH-TV, 7 News NBC, Boston, MA; and News Director for WKBW-TV, News 7, Buffalo, NY.