Marni Hughes serves as the anchor of NewsNation’s mid-morning news program NewsNation Live (weekdays, 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. ET.)
Prior to joining NewsNation, Ms. Hughes anchored the evening news for KCPQ-TV in Seattle, Washington where she played a strategic role in the expansion of the nightly broadcasts and launched a health franchise with a focus on wellness and lifestyle. During her tenure, she earned an Emmy for a series of stories highlighting the struggles families face raising kids on the autism spectrum. She was also recognized for her reporting on traumatic brain injuries and concussions specific to youth sports safety.
Previously, she worked as a journalist and anchor for KMSP-TV in Minneapolis, Minnesota, KSTU-TV in Salt Lake City, Utah and WISE-TV in Fort Wayne, Indiana. She started her career as an associate producer at WBNS-TV in Columbus, Ohio.
Ms. Hughes believes the best journalists are those who stay curious, truly listen, and understand the power of a well-told story. It’s those fundamental values, along with the necessity for impartiality, that attracted her to a career in news more than 20 years ago, and it is those same principles that keep her in constant pursuit of great stories that help people make informed decisions in their own lives.
She graduated with a B.A. in broadcast journalism from the University of Montana.
