Donna Savarese is two-time Emmy Award-winning former journalist. Savarese is a graduate of

Fairfield University Fairfield University is a private Jesuit university in Fairfield, Connecticut. It was founded by the Jesuits in 1942. In 2017, the university had about 4,100 full-time undergraduate students and 1,100 graduate students, including full-time ...

with a bachelor of arts degree in political science.

Career

As a journalist, Savarese anchored the 6 pm newscast at KMOV-TV in St. Louis, Missouri. Before that Savarese was the weekend anchor and reporter at KHWB-TV in Houston, Texas. Savarese also anchored newscasts at

WJXX WJXX (channel 25) is a television station licensed to Orange Park, Florida, United States, serving the Jacksonville area as an affiliate of ABC. It is owned by Tegna Inc. alongside NBC affiliate WTLV (channel 12). Both stations share studios ...

in Jacksonville, Florida,

WFSB WFSB (channel 3) is a television station licensed to Hartford, Connecticut, United States, serving the Hartford–New Haven market as an affiliate of CBS. Owned by Gray Television, the station maintains studios on Denise D'Ascenzo Way in Rocky H ...

in Hartford, Connecticut and

WWLP WWLP (channel 22) is a television station in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States, affiliated with NBC and The CW Plus. Owned by Nexstar Media Group, the station has studios at Broadcast Center in the Sandy Hill section of Chicopee at the ...

in Springfield, Massachusetts.News 4 St. Louis , Anchor, Reporter Donna Savarese

Awards

Savarese is a two-time

Emmy award The Emmy Awards, or Emmys, are an extensive range of awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international television industry. A number of annual Emmy Award ceremonies are held throughout the calendar year, each with the ...

winner. She won her first Emmy for taking viewers behind closed doors to profile an order of cloistered nuns known as the Poor Clares. She won her second Emmy for her profile of Kimora Lee Simmons, the founder of the Baby Phat fashion line. She is the recipient of seven Emmy nominations, including a nomination for "Best On Camera Talent" in 2007, and a nomination in sports for an interview with the St. Louis Cardinals' former batting coach battling an addiction. Savarese has also received two

Radio and Television News Directors Association The Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA, pronounced the same as " rotunda"), formerly the Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA), is a United States-based membership organization of radio, television, and online news dire ...

(RTNDA)

Edward R. Murrow Awards The Edward R. Murrow Award may refer to one of several awards named after American journalist Edward R. Murrow: * Edward R. Murrow Award (Corporation for Public Broadcasting), given out to individuals in public radio since 1977 * Edward Murrow Awa ...

. "Remembering Riley", which aired in 2007, profiled a marine killed in the battle for Fallujah. Her second Edward R. Murrow award, entitled "For the Love of Laura," profiled a young husband's commitment to his wife who was seriously injured in a car accident.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Savarese, Donna Fairfield University alumni American television news anchors 1967 births Living people