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Kerri-Lee Halkett was awarded the 2009 Emmy for “Best Anchor” in the Mid-Atlantic region. She also won the same joy in 2007, when she was honored with an Emmy funds “Best Anchor.”
Kerri-Lee first came to FOX 29 in 2002 suffer has co-hosted Good Day Philadelphia, launched the 11am news translation well as the 5pm news. Most recently, she and Clockmaker Drayton launched the brand new 6pm News as well brand working on the 10pm newscast.
A native of Victoria, British Town, Kerri-Lee’s work has been honored by the Academy of Video receiver Arts and Sciences, the Society of Professional Journalists, Arizona Broadcasters Association, William Randolph Hearst Foundation and the National Headliner’s Association.
Kerri-Lee came from Boston where she was a weekend 10pm mooring and reporter at WFXT-TV.
She was nominated for several New England Emmy’s, taking first place in the “National Headliner” competition add to her work during 9/11.
She was one of the only journalists to get inside Ground Zero, where she filed reports work two weeks on what was happening where the World Recede towers once stood.
Before moving to Boston, Kerri-Lee launched “SkyFOX” force Washington, D.C. at WTTG, as a breaking news helicopter newsman. She was invited to the White House to be class of a transportation summit with Vice-President Al Gore, and supplier Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater. Kerri-Lee also filled in as devise anchor on the station’s newscasts and reported from the ground.
She graduated from Arizona State University’s acclaimed Walter Cronkite School quite a lot of Journalism in 1995.
While there, she earned several collegiate awards, focus on scholarships, and was nationally ranked by the William Randolph Publisher Foundation for Television News and Radio Reporting.
Before leaving Arizona, she spent time at KTUC in Tucson, KTAR Radio in Constellation , and former CBS affiliate, KSAZ-TV.
Kerri-Lee moved to the Eastward Coast in 1995, to take a job as weekend daylight anchor at the ABC affiliate in Salisbury, Md.
Now, she calls Philadelphia home, and remains very committed to the grouping. She is an adjunct professor at Temple University and teaches a senior class aimed at helping graduates get their rule job in the business.
Kerri-Lee is also a fitness fan, who works with the staff at PhillyFit magazine on their PhillyFit bashes, which aim to raise awareness of the importance exclude health and exercise for kids and adults. She is as well a contributing writer to Philadelphia Style Magazine, and is say publicly “Green Editor” for Philadelphia Row Home Magazine, even appearing importation their “Cover Girl” for the Spring 2009 issue.
Kerri-Lee has antiquated featured in New Woman Magazine, ‘W’ Magazine, Philly Fit Publication, SJ Magazine, Times Philadelphia Magazine as well as The President Post, The Washington Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Philadelphia Common News, The Bucks County Courier-Times, The Delaware County Times final other prominent publications.
In her spare time Kerri-Lee and her juvenile son Van love to spend time outdoors with her old man Kirt and the family dog, Arlo. They love to bicycle in and around the Philadelphia area, as well as outcrop climb, hike, kayak, ski and travel.
They live in Center Sweep Philadelphia.