WTXF-TV Reporters
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This is a list of current television news reporters for WTXF-TV, which is owned by Fox and is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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[edit] John Atwater
John Atwater
[edit] Jeff Cole
Jeff Cole
[edit] Claudia Gomez
Claudia Gomez
[edit] Bruce Gordon
Bruce Gordon
[edit] Sheinelle Jones
Sheinelle Jones joined the FOX 29 team in July 2005 as a general assignment reporter for "Good Day Philadelphia." She reported breaking news during the four-hour morning show. Now she is a co-anchor on Good Day Philadelphia from 7-9am with Scott Engler.
Sheinelle was born in Philadelphia and raised in Wichita, Kansas. She is excited to be back in Philly with family.
Prior to joining FOX 29, she was in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she was an anchor for KOKI-FOX 23's 5pm newscast and a reporter for the 9pm newscast. While there, she was awarded top place for outstanding news reporting and overall excellence from the National Association of Black Journalists and the Oklahoma Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. She also received an investigative reporting award from the Oklahoma Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
Prior to working in Tulsa, Sheinelle was a morning anchor and reporter for WICS-TV in Springfield, Illinois.
A 2000 graduate of Northwestern University, Sheinelle majored in Broadcast Journalism with a concentration in Spanish.
[edit] Steve Keeley
Steve Keeley
[edit] Gerald Kolpan
Gerald Kolpan
[edit] Dorothy Krysiuk
Dorothy Krysiuk is the traffic reporter on Good Day Philadelphia.
[edit] Dr. Brian McDonough
Dr. Brian McDonough is WTXF's medical reporter.
[edit] Dave Schratwieser
Dave Schratwieser
[edit] Nick Smith
Nick Smith joined the FOX 29 team in January 2005. Nick co-anchors the 5 to 6am news on "Good Day Philadelphia," then hits the street to cover the morning news for FOX 29 viewers.
Prior to joining FOX 29, Nick covered hurricanes Charley, Danielle, Frances and Jeanne for the ABC owned-and-operated stations and affiliates during the 2004 hurricane season. Nick has worked in Boston, and was an entertainment reporter/host for E! Entertainment Television. He reported for The Weather Channel, World News Now, "Live! With Regis and Kelly," and had his work appear on World News Tonight with Peter Jennings. He moved to Boston from North Carolina, where he was a general assignment reporter for the ABC 11 Eyewitness News Team at WTVD-TV in Raleigh, N.C., from August 2002 to August 2004.
Nick's introduction to television began as an enlisted member of the United States Army. Assigned to the 7th ATC in Kaiserslautern, FRG, his responsibilities included both the illustration and production of training videos and electronic news gathering support for the Armed Forces Network. After receiving his honorable discharge, Nick completed an AA from Santa Rosa Junior College and a bachelor's degree in American studies/political science with a minor in mass communication from University of California, Berkeley.
As an undergraduate, Nick interned for KRON in San Francisco and competed on the national level as a multiple award winner and Captain for both Santa Rosa Junior College and UC Berkeley's Intercollegiate Forensics Speech and Debate Teams, respectively. While working toward his master's degree at Emerson College in Boston, Nick worked as a photographer/truck operator for WPRI in Providence, RI, and anchor/reporter of Emerson College's award-winning WEBN news team.
Nick and his family live in the Society Hill neighborhood of Philadelphia. He can be found jogging regularly as he trains for his first half-marathon. Nick is an avid fiction reader and a huge fan of the television shows "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel," "The O'Reilly Factor" "Judge Judy" and "The Shield".
According to the November 13, 2006 edition of NewsBluezette, the online newsletter of newsblues.com, Nick Smith was escorted out of WTXF's studios the previous week after being unable to come to terms on a contract extension, and Smith's bio was subsequently removed from WTXF's website.
[edit] Robin Taylor
Robin Taylor is a reporter for the FOX 29 Ten O'Clock News.
