Vanessa Lorraine Echols (born November 8, 1960) is a television
journalist and is the noon and 4pm news anchor at WFTV in Orlando,
Florida.Echols was born in Auburn, Alabama, attending Auburn High
School and later majoring in broadcast journalism at the University of
Alabama. She subsequently worked for a radio station in Tuscaloosa,
Alabama, and television stations in Georgia and Tennessee, including
WMAZ-TV in Macon, Georgia. In 1992, Echols began anchoring WFTV's
Eyewitness News Daybreak and Eyewitness News at Noon. In 2007, she was
named anchor of a new morning news program, Eyewitness News This
Morning, on WFTV's sister station WRDQ.Echols is a breast cancer
survivor, and has served as honorary chairman for the Susan G. Komen
Central Florida Race for the Cure and was keynote speaker for the
University of Central Florida's 2006 Breast Cancer Update conference.
journalist and is the noon and 4pm news anchor at WFTV in Orlando,
Florida.Echols was born in Auburn, Alabama, attending Auburn High
School and later majoring in broadcast journalism at the University of
Alabama. She subsequently worked for a radio station in Tuscaloosa,
Alabama, and television stations in Georgia and Tennessee, including
WMAZ-TV in Macon, Georgia. In 1992, Echols began anchoring WFTV's
Eyewitness News Daybreak and Eyewitness News at Noon. In 2007, she was
named anchor of a new morning news program, Eyewitness News This
Morning, on WFTV's sister station WRDQ.Echols is a breast cancer
survivor, and has served as honorary chairman for the Susan G. Komen
Central Florida Race for the Cure and was keynote speaker for the
University of Central Florida's 2006 Breast Cancer Update conference.
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