Lois is an
award winning broadcast journalist who’s been reporting and anchoring on radio
and television for the past 30 years. People are her passion, as
evidenced in her special reports from Bosnia, Serbia, Uganda to the streets of
San Francisco, New York and Denver. Lois has covered presidential
elections, the high tech boom and bust in the Silicon Valley, local and national
disasters and focused on stories of people who’ve overcome great odds.
Lois
currently co-hosts “The Ride Home” on KOA Radio in Denver, Colorado, where she
covers the hot topics of the day, from sports, to breaking news, to snuggies!
From 1997
to 2000, Lois worked as a reporter and anchor at ABC-7 TV in San
Francisco. She covered breaking news, developing stories and producing
and reporting on in-depth pieces. From the Yosemite murders of a mother
and two young girls, the crash of an Alaska Airlines flight, to the El Nino
floods, Lois covered the stories locally and nationally. In 1998, she
traveled on assignment to Uganda to produce and report on an exclusive 4-part
series on how the San Francisco Bay Area responded to the AIDS crisis.
Lois crossed over to television after reporting for and anchoring morning drive
at KCBS Radio in San Francisco from 1986 to 1997. At KCBS, Lois won
awards from the Associated Press, the Society of Professional Journalists, the
Radio and Television News Directors Association, the National Women’s Political
Caucus, the Golden Gate Chapter of American Women in Radio and Television and
the Peninsula Press Club for breaking news, best anchor, best investigative
reporter, contributions to broadcast and electronic media and several
enterprising awards for her two week series of live reports from Bosnia.
She also reported live for 36 hours during and after the 1989 Loma Prieta
earthquake, for which she earned a Peabody Award.
Lois has
written a book as a result of her time spent in Bosnia. She filmed, narrated
and produced the documentary, “Impressions of Armenia” and directed, narrated
and edited a 14 minute video on the work of “Hope Unlimited” in Brazil, which
houses and educates street children.
In 1981,
Lois graduated from Biola University in La Mirada, CA with a Bachelor of Arts
in Communications.