Paige Kelton is a former investigative reporter and Special Projects Manager on ''Action News Jax' at

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. Previously she anchored all evening newscasts (5, 5:30, 6, 11 on WJAX-TV and an hour-long 10 p.m. newscast on WFOX-TV).

Early life

Kelton was raised in

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. She studied telecommunications and journalism, earning her degree from

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. While attending the

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, she was employed by

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Biography

She worked as an anchor and reporter in

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, including at

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. Kelton has received 8 Emmy nominations, and was awarded the Emmy for Excellence in crime reporting and evening newscast. She was honored by the Florida AP Broadcasters Association for Individual Achievement and received The Edward R. Murrow Award for hard news. She joined WAWS(TV) (now WFOX-TV) in 1996 as an anchor, and began anchoring on sister station WTEV-TV (now WJAX-TV) in 2002. For most of her career at the Jacksonville duopoly, she anchored ''CBS 47 News at 6'' and ''Fox 30 News at 10''. However, when WTEV-TV and WAWS(TV) rebranded into one brand known as ''Action News'', she was promoted to Special Projects Manager.

External links

Action News Paige Kelton Bio

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kelton, Paige American television journalists American women television journalists Living people Television anchors from Jacksonville, Florida Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women