WISN-TV (Channel 12) has added two new anchors for its morning and weekend evening newscasts, the station announced Tuesday.
–Ben Wagner will join morning newscast anchor Melinda Davenport in January. He comes to the station from KHBS/KHOG, Hearst sister stations in Arkansas.
Wagner, a Minnesota native, previously worked as a reporter at KOMU-TV in Columbia, Missouri. He graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism.
According to his KHBS biography Wagner was previously a reporter at the Reuters TV bureau in Brussels, Belgium and worked in Europe “during the historic uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. He covered the European Union and NATO’s response to rebel group uprisings throughout Northern Africa and parts of the Middle East”