Kerry Kavanaugh has been named the weekend evening anchor at WFXT FOX 25, New England One has learned.
Kerry is replacing Elizabeth Hopkins who is moving to weekdays to launch FOX 25's new 4pm newscast in mid-April.
Kerry joined FOX 25 in January 2015 as an investigative reporter. She joined the station from Cox Media Group sister station WSB ABC 2 in Atlanta, GA where she had been a general assignment reporter for more than four years. She joined WSB in 2010 as a reporter for the morning news, and in 2011 was promoted to take over the station's Gwinnett County bureau.
During her time at WSB, Kerry was the first reporter on-scene when a gunman took four firefighters hostage after making a bogus call for help, for which she earned an Emmy nomination.
Kerry tackled complex, personal stories as the immigration debate churned in Georgia. WSB also sent Kerry to cover major national stories including the tragedy in Sandy Hook in 2012 and the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013.
Previously, Kerry was an anchor/reporter at Scripps station WFTS-TV ABC 28 in Tampa, FL where she covered Florida politics and consumer issues. She has also been a reporter at Tribune's WHO-TV NBC 13 in Des Moines, IA, and at Cowles' KWYB-TV ABC 18 in Butte, MT where she started her on-air television career.
Her first job out of college was at WBZ-TV in Boston, MA where she was a television sales traffic coordinator, and a internship program manager. Prior to that, she was also an intern at WBZ News.
A native of Medford, MA, Kerry is a 2000 graduate of Boston College where she studied communications and minored in Spanish.
