BIOGRAPHIES

Jill Szwed Biography / Wiki

Jill Szwed is an American meteorologist who currently forecasts Pittsburgh weather every weekend on Pittsburgh’s Action News 4. She started her career in Clarksburg, West Virginia. Jill is certified by the American Meteorological Society. Local snowstorms and a tornado in downtown Pittsburgh in middle school ignited her interest in weather. She has reported on severe storms, a lot of snow, and even live broadcasts from the PGA Tour and the Kentucky Derby. (more…)

Ashley Dougherty Biography / Wiki

Ashley Dougherty is an American Meteorologist, who forecasts Pittsburgh weather each weekday morning on Pittsburgh’s Action News 4. Before joining WTAE in 2012, she worked as a meteorologist at WTRF in Wheeling, West Virginia. (more…)

Felicity Taylor Biography / Wiki

Felicity Taylor is an American reporter, currently working as a general assignment reporter for Pittsburgh’s Action News 4. She joined the news team in 2024. Previously, she served as a Multimedia Journalist and Reporter for WCAV-TV in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States. She also worked as a reporter, Producer, and News Anchor at Rockbridge Report in Rockbridge County, Virginia, United States. (more…)

Ashley Liotus Biography / Wiki

Ashley Liotus is an American journalist, working as the Sports Weekend Anchor and Reporter for Pittsburgh’s Action Sports. She joined the WTAE Sports Department in 2024. Previously, she served as a producer for AT&T SportsNet Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. She assisted the Senior Producer of Inside Pirates Baseball in content creation for Weekly Shows and Monthly Specials. She also served for BIG EAST Conference as Sideline Reporter for three years in New York City. (more…)

Yazmin Rodriguez Biography / Wiki

Yazmin Rodriguez is an American journalist working as a general assignment reporter for Pittsburgh’s Action News 4. Yazmin joined the news team in 2024. She comes to Pittsburgh from Johnstown, PA, where she was an anchor/reporter. A New Jersey native, she knew broadcast journalism was for her during middle school. (more…)

Kalea Gunderson Biography / Wiki Kalea Gunderson is an American reporter working as a general assignment reporter for Pittsburgh's Action News 4. Kalea joined the news team in 2021. Previously,…

Marcie Cipriani Biography / Wiki Marcie Cipriani is an American journalist, anchor and reporter, currently working as a general assignment reporter for Pittsburgh’s Action News 4. She joined WTAE in…

Ava Rash Biography / Wiki

Ava Rash is an American journalist, anchor and reporter, working as a Westmoreland County reporter for Pittsburgh’s Action News 4. In 2020, she proudly joined WCHS, which airs in West Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky. Recognizing her confidence, spontaneity and ability to put interview subjects at ease on live television, her team at the station hired her as a morning news reporter. Almost immediately, she closely covered breaking news and the 2020 Presidential election. Following her success as a field reporter, she earned a promotion to fill in as the noon anchor and the morning anchor, and has anchored the evening news as well. Rash quickly learned the station’s traffic system and also filled in as traffic anchor. (more…)

Ryan Recker Biography / Wiki

Ryan Recker is an American journalist, anchor and reporter who currently co-anchors Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 every weekday morning. Ryan, a native of South Park and a graduate of Robert Morris University, moved back to Pittsburgh and joined WTAE in 2013. (more…)

Amy Lu Biography / Wiki

Amy Lu is an American journalist, anchor and reporter currently working as Washington Correspondent for WTAE. She joined the Washington Hearst Bureau in April 2022. She previously reported for our sister station, WBAL-TV in Baltimore, Maryland. Before joining WBAL-TV, she served as a Mid-Shore Bureau Chief for WBOC-TV for one year in Dorchester County, Maryland. (more…)