Former Southeastern Channel news reporter and anchor Paul Rivera has been hired as a TV news reporter by KOMO-TV Ch. 4 (ABC) in Seattle, the 12th largest TV market in the nation. Rivera, who has been reporting for WESH-TV Ch. 2 (NBC) in Orlando (18th largest market in the nation) for the past two years, will start in Seattle next month. 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.
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