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Meet The Channel 8 Eyewitness News Anchor Team

Channel 8 Eyewitness News Anchor

Rod Fowler

Rod Fowler grew up on a small farm near Tama, Iowa. More>>

Channel 8 Eyewitness News Anchor

Vanessa Brown

Vanessa Brown comes to Lincoln from the CW affiliate, KDAF-TV, in Dallas, Texas where she was a freelance reporter and hosted a community service program called "DFW (Dallas-Fort Worth) Closeup." More>>

Channel 8 Eyewitness News Anchor

Kali Nicole

One could say that Kali got her start in front of the camera in 7th grade when she worked on her junior high newscast. More>>

Channel 8 Eyewitness News Anchor

Erika Summers

Erika Summers was born in Lincoln and spent some of her childhood in Syracuse, Nebraska before moving to Fort Collins, Colorado with her family.  While working for the campus television station at CSU, she produced an investigative story about the lack of food inspectors at the university. More>>

The Channel 8 Eyewitness News On-Air Staff

Ashley Harding

Ashley grew up watching her broadcasting idol, Peter Jennings on The ABC Evening News and found him to be so inspiring that he inspired her to go into broadcasting. More>>

Ian Hest

Ian graduated with a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism from the University of Miami. Before coming to Channel 8 Eyewitness News, he interned at ESPN in Bristol, CT and at WOR radio in New York City. More>>

Melina Matthes

Melina was born and raised in Nebraska.  She calls Omaha home, she bleeds Husker red and loves the excitement of game day in Lincoln. More>>

Cole Miller

Cole is a Nebraska man through and through. Born and raised in Lincoln. More>>

Megan Palera

Megan grew up watching Katie Couric, she loved to write and take pictures so, "TV news was a perfect match", Megan recalls. More>>

Kelly Sommariva

In middle school, she was chosen to do a behind the scenes story on her beloved Red Sox at Fenway Park in Boston. They put her name on the scoreboard and she did her stand up in the Green Monster. More>>

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