Meet The Team
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Sarah Hollister
Weekend Reporter and News Anchor
Sarah Hollister was born and raised in Fairbanks and joined the KTVF news team in 2015.
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Amanda Hanson
News Director
Amanda Hanson started out as the traffic assistant at the station in July of 2016. She soon became the weather anchor for News13 for KXDF. It wasn't until after becoming a reporter where she found her passion for journalism and for Fairbanks.
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J.R. Lewis
Morning News Anchor
Alex Bengel
Reporter/Anchor
Alex is a news reporter and anchor with KXDF channel 13 in Fairbanks, Alaska. Alex first moved to Fairbanks in 2015, and has worked at KXDF since March 2020.
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John Dougherty
Multimedia Journalist
I grew up in Fairbanks and studied journalism at UAF. I am passionate about using my talents to keep the community informed.
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Julie Swisher
Weather Anchor
Julie Swisher is a Weather Anchor for CBS News 13 and has been a part of the team since 2018. Since then she has also worked as a multi-media Journalist covering stories from health to fire, and entertainment in the Fairbanks community among other stories.
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Mike Shultz
Weather Anchor/ Saturday Desk Anchor
Mike Shultz was born in Harlingen, Texas, but spent most of his life in the San Francisco Bay Area. He also spent 23 years in the Air Force, which took him to Thailand, the Philippines, Taiwan, Greenland, and Italy. Mike has been with KTVF since 1992.
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Aaron Walling
KXDF Sports Reporter - Anchor
Aaron Walling has been part of sports media since the Fall of 2012, where he started with play-by-play announcing for the Colony Knights in Palmer, AK. From there he went on to the University of Alaska Fairbanks for a Journalism degree, which he got in 2017. He has been a sports reporter and commentator for several years.
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Jordan Rodenberger
Reporter
Jordan Rodenberger is a sports reporter for KTVF11 reporting in his hometown
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Jacqueline Policastro
Washington Bureau Chief
Jacqueline Policastro created the Gray Television Washington News Bureau in 2014. She’s covered Congress and the White House for more than a decade.
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Ted Fioraliso
Senior Reporter/Executive Producer
Ted Fioraliso returned to Washington, D.C. in April 2016 as a senior reporter/executive producer at the Gray Television Washington News Bureau.
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Peter Zampa
Multimedia Journalist
Peter Zampa joined the Gray Television Washington News Bureau in June 2015 as a multimedia journalist.
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Alana Austin
Multimedia Journalist
Alana Austin joined the Gray Television Washington News Bureau team in August 2017 after spending three years covering national and state politics in Richmond, Virginia at Gray TV's WVIR-TV.
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Kyle Midura
Multimedia Journalist
Kyle Midura joined the Gray Television Washington News Bureau in September 2017 from Gray TV's WCAX-TV.
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Timothy Knapp
Supervisor of Videography
Timothy Knapp joined the Gray Television Washington News Bureau in September 2018 as Studio Manager and Photojournalist. He now serves as Supervisor of Videography.
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Jillian Angeline
Multimedia Journalist
Jillian Angeline joined the Gray Television Washington News Bureau in January 2019 as a multimedia journalist.
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Karen Daborowski
Producer
Karen Daborowski joined the Gray Television Washington News Bureau in January 2019 as a producer.
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Natalie Grim
Multimedia Journalist
Natalie Grim joined the Gray Television Washington News Bureau as a multimedia journalist in June 2019.
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Kristin Kasper
Multimedia Journalist
Kristin Kasper joined the Gray Television Washington News Bureau in July of 2019 as a multimedia journalist.
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Tyler S. Smith
Photojournalist/Editor
Tyler Smith joined the Gray Television Washington News Bureau in July 2019 as a photojournalist/editor.