Vanessa Tyler is an Emmy award-winning and 6-time Emmy nominated reporter/anchor with more than two decades of broadcast journalism experience. Knowing since the age of 11 she would become a television news reporter, she’s worked in many cities around the country in front and behind the camera. After graduating from Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, she started her career in one of the toughest news markets in the country at WTTG-TV in Washington, D.C. Her first job was behind the scenes as an assignment editor. After Washington, she received her first on air job at the ABC affiliate in Salisbury, Maryland. Along the way, she reported in Rochester, New York and Charlotte, North Carolina. In Dayton, Ohio, Ms. Tyler was ‘the most watched’ solo weekend anchor for the CBS affiliate.
While in Ohio, Ms. Tyler won a CBS award of excellence for her franchise assignment “Kids in Chaos” which was a year-long examination of youth violence.