(KAIT) – An Emmy award-winning journalist, Diana Davis is the senior news anchor and reporter at KAIT-Television set. Diana has been honored by the National Academy of Tv Arts and Sciences with their Silver Circle award recognizing television industry experts who have carried out distinguished company within the industry for 25 yrs or more. Her experience and knowledge of Region 8 have enabled her to aid in occasions of crisis such as when Jonesboro was hit by an EF3 tornado in March 2020.
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Her passion for reporting commenced in significant faculty when she started writing for her hometown newspaper, The Raytown Publish. She became the editor of her high university newspaper and went on to graduate with a diploma in Journalism from the College of Kansas William Allen White University of Journalism and Mass Communications in Lawrence, Kansas.
As a pupil, she labored for Lawrence Sunflower Cable and interned at KCMO Radio 81 in Kansas Town, Missouri—the exact radio station the place Walter Cronkite was provided his first broadcast position. Diana was employed by WIBW-Television set in Topeka as a weekend reporter/information anchor during her senior 12 months of college. She went total-time after graduation as a typical assignment reporter masking aircraft crashes, a tornado, and a kidnapping that led to the tragic murders of nearly an entire family.
As Diana was planning for an night newscast, a cellphone call came to her from a station in Jonesboro, Arkansas. KAIT-TV was hunting for an night news anchor. Then Basic Supervisor Harold Culver asked if she would ship a copy of the newscast she was about to anchor that night, and the relaxation is heritage.
Diana arrived to KAIT in 1989 at the age of