Suzanne Le Mignot
Suzanne Le Mignot (born January 25, 1970)[1] is an award-winning television news anchor and reporter for WBBM-TV in Chicago.
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Early life and education
Le Mignot earned a bachelor's degree with honors in mass communications from the University of South Florida in 1993.[2]
Professional career
Le Mignot began her broadcasting career while she was in college, working from 1989 until 1993 at the University of South Florida-owned, PBS-affiliated, WUSF-TV in Tampa, Florida as a production assistant and associate producer.[3] She also worked as a news anchor and reporter in Belgrade, Serbia from 1991 until 1992.[3]
After college, Le Mignot joined WBBM radio in Chicago as a news anchor and reporter in 1994. In 1995, she joined WTMJ-AM in Milwaukee as an anchor-reporter.[4] She also worked briefly as a news anchor at WGN-AM in Chicago before rejoining WBBM in late 1996.[5]
Le Mignot began working for WBBM-TV as a free-lance reporter in 1995, and moved up to full-time status with the station (and therefore quit WBBM radio) in late 1999,[6] when she became WBBM-TV's correspondent for Chicago's South Side and south suburbs.[7] In 2000, Le Mignot became an early morning news anchor at WBBM-TV, a role she held until 2001, when she returned to dayside general assignment reporting duties.[8][9][10]
In February 2002, the Chicago Sun-Times reported that Le Mignot's contract would not be renewed by WBBM-TV, and she briefly left the station.[11] However, she signed a new contract in June 2002 and returned to the station.[12]
In early 2006, Le Mignot became the weekend morning news anchor at WBBM-TV. She current co-anchors with Mike Puccinelli, and she also performs general assignment reporting during the week.[13]
In 2007, WBBM-TV management considered promoting Le Mignot to being weekend evening news anchor. However, station bosses promoted Mai Martinez to the role instead.[14][15]
Awards
Le Mignot won an Associated Press award in 2007 for a piece she reported on the inability by commuter railroads' bomb-sniffing dogs to detect explosives. She also won local and national Emmy awards in 2008.[3]
Personal
Le Mignot lives in the Gold Coast area of Chicago.
References
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