Siouxland’s News Channel is ecstatic to welcome severalnew members to the KTIV family this week! Angela DeHarty, Mark Victoria, Rebecca Varilek, Jacob Peklo, Kaitlin Stevens and Steve Long are all new additions to our Emmy award winning news team.

Angela is a former intern at News 4 and recent graduate from the University of Northern Iowa. She’ll be taking charge of producing News 4 at six and News 4 at ten. Mark Victoria is product of the Windy City and a former chef! You’ll see him out and about in Siouxland reporting as one of our many talented Multi-Media Journalists. Rebecca Varilek could best be described a Jill of all trades. She’s spent the last four year covering KSU sports after serveral ventures in news.

Steve Long & Kaitlin Stevens are two of the newer additions to our team. As content manager, Steve will help keep the news gears greased by tracking down stories and working directly with our viewers. We are excited to have him aboard! Kaitlin will be taking over as producer of News 4 Today. After a few weeks with Al Joens,Christy Batien and Riley O’Connor she may be having too much fun at work! Last but not least, our most recent addition is Jacob Peklo. Jacob has several journalism degrees and has even interned for ESPN-1000 inChicago.

We’d like to welcome all of our new team members and we’re excited to have you aboard as we move in 2012!

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