More Hires for Fox Weather
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As Fox News gets closer to launching their streaming weather channel, they have added more on-air talent to the team before Fall launch date.
Fox sent out a press release, touting their new hires:
Nicole Valdes will serve as a field correspondent based out of Nashville, Tennessee. Valdes joins the platform after a stint as a reporter at KNXV-TV, the ABC affiliate in Phoenix, Arizona, where she was nominated for a Rocky Mountain Emmy award for her investigative journalism. Prior to her time in Phoenix, Valdes covered hurricanes and other major weather events for CBS affiliate WINK-TV in Fort Myers, Florida. Notably, while there, she reported live from the scene during a 7,200-acre wildfire that engulfed Collier County in 2018, and covered Hurricane Irma in 2017.
Steve Bender joins FOX Weather as a Miami based reporter. Most recently, he served as the morning meteorologist at KRNV-TV, the NBC affiliate in Reno, Nevada where he covered major weather events since 2018, including the recent California wildfires. Previously, he anchored a morning news program in Shreveport, Louisiana at NBC affiliate KTAL-TV and served as an evening meteorologist in Greenville, Mississippi at the ABC/FOX affiliate WABG-TV. Throughout his career, he has covered a number of natural disasters, including Hurricanes Michael, Florence and Dorian.
Max Gorden will serve as a Los Angeles based field correspondent covering the West Coast. Previously, he served as a reporter and multimedia journalist at CBS affiliate KPHO-TV in Phoenix, Arizona where he worked for the past three years. Prior to that, Gorden was a multimedia journalist at WAOW-TV, the ABC affiliate in Wausau, Wisconsin before moving to Austin, Texas as a reporter for Spectrum Cable News.
In addition, FOX Weather announced five multimedia journalists who will be reporting for the platform this fall. Nationally recognized storm chaser Will Nunley joins FOX Weather in this capacity based in Nashville, along with veteran reporter Robert Ray who is returning to FOX News Media as a multimedia journalist and storm specialist based out of Atlanta where he was a freelance reporter for The Weather Channel. Katie Byrne joins FOX Weather as a multimedia journalist based in Philadelphia while Mitti Hicks joins in the same capacity based in New Orleans, LA and Hunter Davis will be stationed in Oklahoma City, OK in the same position.
