Lori Stokes (born September 16, 1962) is an American former

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and news anchor. She was the evening news anchor for the 5, 6, and 10 O’Clock news at Fox 5 NY

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from 2021 to 2022. She formerly co-hosted ''

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'' on Fox 5 NY

, with

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. From April 2000 to August 2017, she co-anchored on

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's ''Eyewitness News This Morning'', with

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. Stokes joined the station as part of an effort to increase ratings on WABC's morning newscast and helped bring the broadcast to #1. Stokes retired from broadcasting on September 30, 2022.

Career

Stokes began her journalistic career as the medical reporter and then weekend co-anchor at

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in Champaign-Urbana,

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in 1986. Then, in 1988, she worked as a reporter and weekend anchor for

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. There for two years, she became popular with the viewers in that state. Next, Stokes worked as a crime and street reporter for

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, the

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Station in

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. Finally, Stokes got hands on experience for full-time anchor as

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's lead female anchor of the 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. newscasts. She was there from 1992 through 1996. Then Stokes went to

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at the time of its inception. She was one of the original anchors on the 24-hour

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television channel and the first African American to speak on the cable news network. MSNBC hired newcomer "girl in glasses"

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in 2000 and replaced Stokes on MSNBC'S ''Today in America'' also in 2000. During her tenure at

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Stokes was a rotating newsreader for "NBC Sunrise" and ''

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''. During her tenure at the cable TV station, Stokes covered the Columbine High School Massacre and the death of John F. Kennedy, Jr. in 1999.

Career in New York City

Stokes was paired with

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who, at the time, also co-anchored the station's 5 p.m. news with

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and had previously co-anchored the morning news. The new pair, who replaced anchors

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and

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, did not work as well as WABC had hoped they would. Hanrahan was taken off the morning news in December 2000 and replaced with

's weekend sports anchor

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. Stokes and Bartelstein proved to work well and eventually helped bring ''Eyewitness News This Morning'' back to the number one position it had enjoyed in previous years. The pair eventually took over anchoring duties for ''Eyewitness News at Noon'', replacing

and

once again. For a brief time in 2003, Stokes was removed from the noon newscast and replaced with

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. Stokes resumed anchoring the noon newscast when

left the station and was replaced by Baderinwa. From Tuesday, March 13, 2007, to Wednesday, July 4, 2007, ( Independence Day), Stokes was the sole anchor of ''Eyewitness News This Morning'' and ''Eyewitness News at Noon''. She was joined by a rotating roster of reporters from March until July when reporter

was chosen to permanently replace

. Rosato officially took over on July 9, 2007, as her morning and noon co-anchor. In fall 2010, the morning newscast expanded to begin at 4:30 a.m. and, in fall 2014, the noon news expanded to a full hour, which lengthened Stokes' and Rosato's already long days. As part of the expansion, WABC promised to relieve both of them of their noon duties in order to focus on the morning news. That promise was kept and, in June 2015, Stokes and Rosato handed over noon duties to David Novarro and Shirleen Allicot. Lori Stokes left Eyewitness News in August 2017 and, on October 4, 2017, started her tenure as co-host of

with

on Fox 5

replacing

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. WNYW promoted Stokes to anchoring the station’s evening broadcasts in June 2021. Stokes retired from broadcasting on September 30, 2022.

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Career

Career in New York City

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