Jeff Nelson comes from East Hanover, NJ, but is a product of Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Journalism, with a political science minor.
After 14 years of waking up the north country as anchor of 7News This Morning, Jeff Cole began anchoring our 6 p.m. evening news on May 1, 2017.
Mel started his broadcast career at WATN radio in 1978. He moved over to 7News in 1982, becoming full time Sports Anchor of the 6 and 11 news in 1984.
After a successful career reporting weather conditions for the Air Force, John joined the 7News team as the weekend weather personality and now is Chief Weathercaster.
Makenzie joined the news team in June 2017.
Beth Hall has been the morning co-host and weather presenter (morning and noon) for over 20 years.
Diane Rutherford is an award-winning journalist who has been a general assignment reporter, anchor, producer and web site writer at WWNY-TV for more than 30 years.
John is a native of St. Lawrence County and graduate of Lisbon Central.
Rob graduated from Buffalo State College in 1988 with a Bachelor's Degree in broadcast journalism, a member of the Broadcast Honors Society, of which he served as president.
Kris Hudson is a true southerner who is from Bauxite, Arkansas. He is used to summers having high humidity and temperatures reaching over 100 degrees, and the winters only getting maybe an inch or so of snow a year.
Keith Benman is St. Lawrence County reporter for 7News, covering Canton, Potsdam, Ogdensburg, Massena and the rest of the largest county in New York state.
Erin joined the news team as a reporter in December 2016.
Lexi Bruening joined the 7 News team as a reporter in May 2020.
Abbey joined the 7News team in March 2019 as a part-time multi-media journalist and became full time after she graduated in May.
Keir Chapman is a Southern California native.
Emily Griffin is an area native, coming to the 7 News team from the village of Copenhagen.
John Pirsos joined the 7 News team in September 2020. He was born and raised in northern New Jersey and graduated from Seton Hall University in 2018 with a major in broadcasting and a minor in journalism.
Ashley Seybolt reports throughout the week and produces the evening and weekend broadcasts for WWNY in Watertown, NY.
Les Shockley was born and raised in northern New York and graduated from Sackets Harbor Central School and Jefferson Community College.
Brendan joined the 7News team in June 2020.