Former Southeastern Channel news anchor-reporter Paul Rivera, now a news reporter for WESH-TV Ch. 2 (NBC) in Orlando, Fla. (DMA 18), aided WDSU-TV Ch. 6 (NBC) in New Orleans with coverage of 2020 hurricanes Marco and Laura. Rivera was loaned to WDSU from WESH for storm coverage since the two stations share the same parent company, Hearst Communications. Rivera covered the approach of Laura from different locations throughout southeast Louisiana. He traveled to both Grand Isle and Houma. Paul also covered Hurricane Isaias for WESH in Orlando. Upon graduating from Southeastern in 2015, Rivera was hired as news reporter-anchor by KLTV Ch. 7 (NBC) in Tyler, Tx. (DMA 114) before moving to WIS-TV Ch. 10 (CBS) in Columbia, S.C. (DMA 74) as anchor-reporter prior to joining WESH in Orlando. While at the Southeastern Channel as anchor-reporter for “Northshore News”, Rivera won multiple first-place regional awards for his news reporting and anchoring given by the Society of Professional Journalists (Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee) and Southeast Journalism Conference (eight states in the southeast U.S.). In 2015 he was named Louisiana’s “Student Broadcaster of the Year” given by the Louisiana Association of Broadcasters from all college television and radio students in the state.
