Lori Jane Gliha is an American television journalist.

Career

A native of Ohio, Gliha attended the Annenberg School for Communication at the

University of Southern California , mottoeng = "Let whoever earns the palm bear it" , religious_affiliation = Nonsectarian—historically Methodist , established = , accreditation = WSCUC , type = Private research university , academic_affiliations = , endowment = $8.1 ...

between 1998 and 2002. Gliha graduated summa cum laude as the outstanding broadcast journalism undergraduate from

. She worked at

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in Lansing, Michigan;

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; and

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, where she spent six years as an investigative reporter and weekend evening anchor. In 2013, Gliha joined

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's flagship show ''

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'', serving as one of the network's first national correspondents. Based out of Washington, D.C., she covered stories across the country in addition to reporting in studio along with anchor

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. After Al Jazeera America closed, she joined the investigative team at ''Insight with John Ferrugia'', a production of

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. A piece she reported on child sex trafficking in Colorado, "Traded and Trafficked", was nominated for a national News & Documentary Emmy. In 2019, she joined the investigative reporting team at

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in that city. In 2021, her feature story reporting on ketamine in Colorado received a national Edward R. Murrow Award and

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References

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