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Darya Folsom (KRON)
Darya Folsom anchors KRON 4 News Daybreak and the KRON 4 Morning News. She came to KRON 4 in 1998 from Washington, D.C., where she was a morning anchor for the Fox station WTTG-TV. Though she was raised in Connecticut, moving to San Francisco was like coming home, because her entire family has been transplanted to the Bay Area over the last 20 years.For Folsom, even at a young age there was no other career but journalism. She’d wanted to be a television reporter since she was five years old, when she would interview her little sister on a reel-to-reel tape recorder. If she didn’t spend so much time talking, Folsom might have become a classical musician. She played the violin for five years, dabbled in the drums and harp, and played the flute for 13 years, going to music camps and studying at the Hartford Conservatory. She went on to major in broadcast journalism at the University of Kansas. After spending a year studying art history and political science in London, she graduated with honors from K.U. in 1987.
Folsom believes a TV career is perfect for her, having traveled throughout Europe, Russia, and Israel and being adept at landing in new places and learning the ropes. She started in Lawrence, Kansas as a reporter and quickly moved up the ranks in markets from Palm Springs, California, to Boise, Idaho, to Portland, Maine, to Phoenix, Arizona, where she anchored the evening newscasts at KNXV-TV. After that, Folsom was a morning anchor and investigative reporter at WTTG-TV in Washington, D.C., and finally moved to KRON 4. Folsom’s reporting has taken her 10,000 feet up to sky dive, to Guatemala to expose sweatshops, to Hollywood for the Oscars and to Chicago for the 1996 Democratic National Convention.
Folsom has won many awards, including two Emmy awards for best newscast, in Phoenix; a 2000 Emmy for serious feature reporting; four Emmy nominations for reporting; two Idaho Press Club awards, in 1990 and 1991; and the C. Everett Koop Media Award for health reporting in 1989.
Folsom has always enjoyed being involved her community. She has served on a state panel for people with disabilities and has done work for the Arthritis Foundation. She has been active with the Jewish Historical Society, the National Cancer Society, and the Alzheimer’s Association. She has also participated in numerous Bay Area events benefiting local charities for AIDS, children with cancer, the San Mateo Parks Foundation, and the Read California campaign.
Folsom and her husband have a daughter and a son.
Jessica Aguirre (NBC11)
Jessica Aguirre anchors NBC11 News at 5 p.m. Jessica began her career while attending the University of Miami.Before coming to the Bay Area nine years ago, Aguirre anchored and reported in Los Angeles and Miami. She earned Emmy awards for her series on the struggles faced by migrant children and for a series on child molesters. Her series on Cuban boat people trying to make it to the U.S. won an Associated Press award.
As the daughter of immigrant parents and fluent in Spanish, Aguirre supports League of United Latin American Citizens and Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund. She also supports San Francisco Animal Care and Control and is a member of National Academy of Television, Arts and Sciences.
Carolyn Johnson (ABC7)
Carolyn Johnson is the co-anchor of ABC7 News at 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday and anchor of the Sunday edition of ABC7 News at 5 , 6 and 11.Carolyn brings nearly 20 years of experience in television production and on-air work to her position. She began her broadcasting career as an intern at KCBS in Los Angeles, then worked as a production assistant for ABC7 while still in college. She worked behind the scenes, producing numerous programs and specials at ABC7 before accepting a reporting position at KSBY-TV. She returned to ABC7 in 1998 as a reporter and anchor.
A five-time Emmy nominee, Carolyn's been honored as best reporter by American Women in Radio and Television, Golden Gate Chapter. She's won a Service to Children Award from the National Association of Broadcasters, the Eugene Block Journalism Award for Outstanding Coverage of San Francisco Human Rights Issues, and the John Swett Award for Outstanding Locally Produced Education Series, and the Arthritis Foundation Media Award. She's also been recognized by the Radio and Television News Directors Association (RTNDA) for news reporting.
A Stanford University honors graduate, Carolyn holds a double major in psychology and communication. She also spent a year abroad, studying in the Netherlands.
Carolyn covers the health and medical beat.
Roberta Gonzales (CBS5)
Four-time EMMY award winning Roberta Gonzales is the Weather Anchor for CBS 5 Eyewitness News at 5, 6 and 11PM. Previously she was the Weather Anchor for CBS 5 Early Edition and Noon newscasts. Gonzales is also the weather anchor for KCBS-AM for the morning and mid-day shows. Roberta writes a daily weather column for the San Francisco Chronicle exploring and addressing the current weather conditions locally and across the globe. A native of California, Gonzales returned to the Bay Area after six years of weather reporting in Chicago.Gonzales has won numerous awards for her outstanding work, including the Associated Press Award for "Best Weathercast" nine times and the American Women in Radio and Television (AWRT) Best Weathercaster Award four times, both most recently in 2006. She has garnered the Radio/Television News Directors Association (RTNDA) award for "Best Weather Segment" eight times. This is in addition to winning two RTNDA awards for "Best Host" of CBS 5's Bay to Breakers.
While in Chicago, Gonzales was awarded the Illinois Broadcasters Award for "Best Weathercast" and was the recipient of an Emmy Award for hosting WMAQ's children's program, "News for Kids, Chicago Style!". She also received the prestigious "Gabriel" award for children's programming in addition to being honored in, "A Tribute to Chicago Women", for her outstanding contributions in the community.
Voted Volunteer of the Year by the American Cancer Society, The American Lung Association and the National Humane Society, Gonzales has served on boards for the March of Dimes, The American Lung Association, The American Diabetes Association.
Roberta began her career at KPRI FM radio and XETV Channel 6 in San Diego. She worked her way up from a television gardener/messenger to Film Editor and then became an Assistant Film Director at KGTV in San Diego before becoming a writer. She landed her first job Reporting and Weathercasting at KGTV then on to KSBY in San Luis Obispo. She forecasted the weekend weather at KFMB in San Diego before working at KNTV in San Jose.
While in San Jose, the San Jose Mercury News and the Women's Fund named Roberta "Woman of the Year" in the field of Communications. In memory of a friend who died of cancer, Roberta founded a scholarship supporting college bound students entering the medical field. She is involved with the American Cancer Society, American Lung Association and the Girl Scouts. In her spare time, Roberta avidly enjoys marathon running (she has run 19 marathons, completed dozens of triathlons, 3 Half Ironmen, and three full Ironman in three countries: Canada, United States, and Switzerland) and was selected as an official Torch Bearer for the 2002 Olympics.
Attending San Diego State University, San Diego City and San Diego Mesa Colleges, Roberta graduated with a degree in Liberal Arts with an emphasis in Journalism. She is a member of the American Meteorological Society. Roberta is married to San Jose Sharks television play-by-play Sportscaster Randy Hahn and is the mother of two young boys and has a dog, "Ritz".
Kate Kelly (CBS5)
Kate Kelly is a featured reporter on CBS 5. Every week she brings viewers inspiring profiles of Bay Area Jefferson Award winners, recognizing people who do outstanding public service in the community.For 22 years Kelly has worked at CBS 5 as an anchor and reporter. She began as a reporter with KPIX in 1984. A few months later Kelly and co-anchor Doug Murphy assumed anchor responsibilities on the weekends. In 1987 Kelly began co-anchoring Eyewitness News weeknights at 11pm with veteran newscaster Dave McElhatton. Her duties expanded to include the 5pm weeknight news after the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989. Ten years later Kate moved to mornings for two years, co-anchoring the early morning newscasts with Ken Bastida. Between 2000 and 2004, Kate returned to weeknights, co-anchoring the 5pm and 4:30 newscasts.
In January of 2005, Kelly debuted the first of the Bay Area Jefferson Awards. A weekly tribute to volunteers doing outstanding public service in the community. Working together with the National Institute for Public Service in Washington D.C., and a local committee of non-profit representatives, CBS 5 takes nominations and selects local award winners. Kelly's profiles then air weekly on Eyewitness News at 6pm and on KCBS radio. In 2006 the Bay Area Jefferson Awards received the Northern California Area EMMY® Award for Community Service. Last year CBS 5 was recognized by the Northern California American Women in Radio and Television with its Good News Award for this outstanding series.
Kelly began her broadcast career as a reporter/photographer/anchor for KRCR-TV in Redding California, after graduating from Stanford University in 1979. Kelly shot, edited and produced stories for the newscasts. In 1980 Kelly went to work as a reporter and anchor at KVUE-TV in Austin TX. , where she stayed three years. During that time the station won the UPI and AP Best Newscast Award in Texas for three years in a row.
Kelly has covered a wide variety of stories since joining CBS, including the Presidential elections, the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, and Pope John Paul II's U.S. tour. Kelly even flew with the Blue Angels during a Fleet Week appearance.
In 1984, Kelly was named the outstanding young journalist by the Association of Professional Journalists, her more recent recognitions include the 2002 Radio and Television News Directors Assoc. award for "The Alaskan Refuge; America's Treasure, America's Oil", the 2004 California Teacher's Association's John Swett Award for Media Excellence for "Schools in Crisis", the 2005 Good News Award from the NorCal Chapter of American Women in Radio and Television (AWRT) for the Jefferson Awards.
In October of 2005, Kelly was inducted into the Silver Circle of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) NorCal Chapter, for having made a significant contribution to Northern California Television over 25 years.
Kelly, a Bay Area native, was born and raised in Marin County. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two children.
Dana King (CBS5)
Emmy Award-winning news anchor Dana King has traveled extensively covering news throughout the world.In October 2006 she covered northern Iraq, at that time an amazingly safe and economically sound region, vastly different than the war-torn southern Iraq. In August of 2004 she traveled to Afghanistan reporting on post war/pre-presidential election stories. In April of 2004 she went to Rwanda, reporting on the 10 year commemoration of the genocide. The multiple part series on Rwanda received two RTNDA Awards. Most recently the prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award in March of 2005. King filed a series of seven reports documenting the impact on survivors.
In November 2002, King spent two days aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Persian Gulf and filed live reports from Amman Jordan. She was the first bay area broadcast journalist at ground zero on September 13, 2001. In January 2000, King traveled back to Honduras, two years after her initial trip covering the destruction caused by the flooding after hurricane "Mitch" in November 1998. Her five-part series "Healing a Nation" provided Bay Area viewers a look at the courageous personal survival of the Honduran people. She revisited people she interviewed from her first trip providing an update on their progress.
During 1999, King traveled to Turkey and to Taiwan to report on the devastation left from the two earthquakes. She reported the similarities of the geographic fault lines of Turkey to that of the Bay Area fault lines. King reported on the poor construction in the hardest hit areas of Turkey.
From Turkey, King traveled to Albania and Kosovo to document the situation for refugees. King met up with two Bay Area doctors who were there to provide medical relief to Kosovo refugees. She filed several reports on the doctors' humanitarian efforts. King said, "I told my children I can't help like a doctor can, but I can tell someone's story to make things better."
November of 1998, King traveled to Honduras following the destruction left by Hurricane Mitch, where she reported for more than a week, calling it one of the most touching stories that she had ever covered. Her efforts immediately led CBS and the Bay Area Chapter of the American Red Cross to open a phone bank that raised close to a million dollars.
King received a local Emmy Award for her reporting in Honduras. As well as four Emmy Awards for local news in Los Angeles, St. Louis, and San Francisco. In 2006 she received the Kudo award for best anchor by the American Women in Radio and Television (AWRT).
King began her broadcasting career in Los Angeles as a general assignment reporter at KABC-TV. From general assignment reporter, she moved to early morning news anchor. In 1989 the Los Angeles Sentinel named her "Woman of the Year." In 1990 she moved to St. Louis to become the evening news anchor at KTVI-TV.
After King left St. Louis, she worked as anchor on "Good Morning America Sunday," and as a substitute co-anchor and reporter for "Good Morning America." She joined CBS News in December 1993 as co-anchor and reporter for the prime time news magazine "America Tonight." She was co-anchor of the "CBS Morning News," and a frequent contributor to "CBS This Morning," as well as other CBS News programs. In 1995 King anchored a syndicated news and information program called "Day and Date." Her most recent network assignment was that of general assignment reporter for the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather.
Born in Cleveland, King graduated with a bachelor's degree in marketing from Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan. She is a competitive rower and has competed and medaled in regional, national and international sculling events. She has two children.
Gasia Mikaelian (KTVU)
Gasia Mikaelian joined the KTVU Channel 2 News team in March 2005.Mikaelian began her television career in 1997 as a Reporter at KSWT-TV (CBS) in Yuma, Arizona. From 1998-2000 she was an Anchor/Reporter at WAFF-TV (NBC) in Huntsville, Alabama. Her next step was back to San Diego where she worked as an Anchor/Reporter at XETV-TV (FOX). Prior to joining KTVU, Mikaelian worked as an Anchor/Reporter at KPRC-TV, the NBC affiliate in Houston, Texas.
The East Bay native received her Bachelors in Broadcast Journalism from San Diego State University.
Her favorite part of the job is reporting on breaking news and meeting new people with exciting stories to tell.
In her spare time, Gasia enjoys reading anything by David Sedaris. She also loves listening to National Public Radio and having dinner parties with friends.
She is thrilled to be back in the Bay Area.
Vicki Liviakis (KRON)
Vicki Liviakis anchors KRON 4 News at 5, 9 and 11 on weekends and reports for KRON 4 News at 9 on weekdays. She joined the station in 2001 and most recently worked as a general assignment reporter.Vicki has traveled the globe covering stories from terrorism in the Middle East to devastating floods in the American Midwest. She knows both sides of the camera - from working in Europe as a photographer to anchoring the nightly news in Los Angeles.
Vicki began her broadcast career in radio as an anchor and news director at KFRC Radio in San Francisco. From KFRC, she went on to anchor at Metro Traffic Control, K101 Radio, and KGO Radio in San Francisco.
She began working in television in 1986 as a freelance anchor, host, and reporter, working on such projects as PBS’ “Nightly Business Report,” the noon news at KTVU-TV in Oakland, and KGO-TV’s “AM San Francisco.” Liviakis first began working at KRON 4 as a reporter and producer for “Cover Story” in 1986.
Liviakis went on to anchor, host and report for numerous local and national television programs, including “The West,” “In America,” CBS’ “Day and Date,” and NBC’s “Real Life.” She anchored the 10 o’clock news on KCOP in Los Angeles. Her half-hour Travel Update program and Consumer Travel Reports were syndicated on over 100 TV stations in the U.S. as well as several other countries.
In addition to her Emmy Award for Best Entertainment Program, Liviakis has earned several other honors for her broadcast journalism. Her awards include Best Documentary and Best Mini-Series awards from the Radio-Television News Directors Association, six awards from the Associated Press, and an honor for Outstanding Contributions to Broadcasting from the American Women in Radio and Television.
Vicki attended the University of California at Berkeley, where she studied Journalism and Politics. She resides in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Diane Dwyer (NBC11)
Bay Area Native Diane Dwyer is the weekend anchor and reporter for NBC11 News.Diane brings 18 years of Bay Area reporting experience to NBC11. She has won several awards including: Emmy, Associated Press, New York Film Festival and Bay Area Society of Professional Journalist awards.
Diane traveled to Torino, Italy to cover the Olympic games. She also traveled to Beijing in June of 2007 to report extensively on that city's preparations for the 2008 Summer Games. You can watch her next summer from Beijing as she covers Bay Area Olympians going for gold in China.
Diane is keenly involved with F.A.C.E. Scholarships in Oakland, German Shepherd Rescue, Rebuilding Together Peninsula, the Asian American Donor Program, the Iraqi Children's Art Exchange and several other non-profits in the Bay Area.
Growing up in the Peninsula, Diane attended Burlingame High School and the Undergraduate Business School at UC Berkeley. Diane first went into corporate/investment banking, but after a year as an investment analyst at Chemical Bank, she decided to change careers.
Diane and her husband have two children. The family also has a dog they adopted from pet rescue.
Kristen Sze (ABC7)
Kristen Sze co-anchors the ABC7 Morning News with Eric Thomas and co-anchors the ABC7 Midday News with Cheryl Jennings. She also reports for Assignment 7 on ABC7 News at 6.Fluent in Mandarin Chinese, Sze covered the devastating 1999 earthquake in Taiwan, her birthplace. She provided on-site reports of the tragedy and was the only reporter representing Bay Area television stations. Since joining ABC7, Sze won a 2002 Emmy as host of ABC7's "Profiles of Excellence," recognizing Asian-Americans who have served their community in an exemplary fashion. Sze also earned an Emmy nomination for her reporting on the Damming of the Yangtze River in China, where she traveled to in October of 2002 to get a first hand look at the controversial engineering project.
In 1999, Sze won an Emmy Award for best children and youth segment for "Spin-Out School," a story about a unique driving school targeting teenagers.
Sze joined ABC7 News in July 1998, after working as the New York-based correspondent for the national television news magazine, EXTRA. Her many assignments included reports on the Monica Lewinsky investigation, the death of Michael Kennedy and a rare at-home profile of Muhammad Ali.
Prior to working at EXTRA, she was a reporter and substitute anchor for WPVI-TV, the ABC owned station in Philadelphia.
A Bay Area resident since the age of eight, Sze received her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley. She is member of the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society. A scholarship from the Asian American Journalists Association enabled Sze to study at Oxford University in England. She later became the scholarship coordinator for that organization.
Sze enjoys working with students to encourage their journalistic pursuits, having recently spoken to students at San Francisco State, and her alma maters: UC Berkeley and Aragon High School in San Mateo.
Sze has also volunteered her time to a number of community organizations, among them the Ronald McDonald House of San Francisco, the Chinese American Voter Education Committee, Chinatown Community Children's Center, San Mateo County's Childcare Coordinating Council, Self Help for the Elderly, Chinese Historical Society in San Francisco, Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation, Professional Businesswomen's Conference, Rotary Club of San Mateo's "Reach for the Stars," honoring high school leaders. She has also worked with both the San Mateo County Women's Hall of Fame and the Crisis Center where she has been a crisis counselor and helped fundraise for San Francisco City College's Culinary Arts and Hospitalities program.
*All biographies from their respective employer websites.
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