Kayla Moody
Award-winning journalist
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Dedicated, competitive and reliable journalist with a diverse television background including reporting, multi-media journalism, live reporting, anchoring, producing and team management. Passionate and highly driven professional known for enterprising meaningful stories, cultivating sources and being a front runner on social media.
Skills
WRITING
NON-LINEAR EDITING
VIDEOGRAPHY
SOCIAL MEDIA
GRAPHIC DESIGN
PUBLIC SPEAKING
Work
experience
Morning Anchor/Executive Producer - WEVV
Evansville, Indiana
April 2018 - Present
- Anchor four hours of daily weekday morning newscasts on the
station's CBS and FOX channels
- Oversee production and content on morning newscasts
- Lead and manage morning news and production staff
- Completely redesigned all four hours of morning newscasts for a
full relaunch that first aired in Oct. 2018
- Produced a 30 minute special on opioid abuse that aired Sept. 2018
- Contribute daily story ideas
- Enterprise features and special reports
Anchor/Reporter - WHAS TV
Louisville, Kentucky
April 2015 - April 2018
- Covered a wide variety of stories in the Kentuckiana region, with a
special interest in political coverage
- Anchored weekend 6:30 and 11 p.m. newscasts
- Served as fill-in anchor during weekdays
- Shot, wrote, and edited news stories
- Contributed reports to weekly 30 minute political show
Reporter / Weekend Anchor - WEHT/WTVW
Evansville, Indiana
July 2011 - April 2015
- Senior reporter for primetime newscasts continually striving to be fair
and accurate, cultivate sources, enterprise relevant stories and
provide invaluable information to viewers through various platforms
- Cover a wide variety of news stories stretching across Indiana,
Kentucky and Illinois
- Weekend anchor, responsible for fronting all weekend shows
- Manage all weekend content and staff
- Produce Saturday and Sunday 10 p.m. newscasts, co-produce all
other weekend newscasts
- Previously served as a multi-media journalist, was later promoted to
morning live reporter and co-host of Lifestyles
Reporter / Anchor - NewsLink Indiana
Muncie, Indiana
August 2010 - May 2011
- Anchored and reported for student-run news station, covering East
Central Indiana spot news, local government, state politics and
campus news
- Regularly served as fill-in weather talent and graphics editor
- Awarded 2011 Steve Bell News Packaging Award
LillyTV Designer, Contractor - Eli Lilly and Company
Indianapolis, Indiana
May 2008 - October 2012
- Designed all televised communication for daily LLYNEWS publication
and bi-monthly employee publication
- Created all internally televised promotions for company United Way
Campaign
- Produced communication packages for special company campaigns
and daily requests
- Trained employees on 'Lilly-TV' software, operations, servers and
design
- Developed televised winner-profiles and promotions for former yearly
Chairman's Ovation Award
- Collaborated with CEO, employee communications department, and
employees to produce 5 to 10 minute videos of CEO answering staff
questions and/or addressing company issues
- Created web banners and other visual elements for company's
intranet homepage
Awards
2018 WEVV Eye On Excellence (Oct. 2018)
2017 Louisville SPJ Light Feature (2nd Place)
2017 Louisville Weather Reporting (2nd Place)
2016 Emmy Nominated: Team Coverage
2016 Louisville SPJ Spot News Reporting (2nd and 3rd Place)
2016 Louisville SPJ Sports Reporting (3rd Place)
2016 Louisville SPJ Government/Politics (3rd Place)
2016 Louisville SPJ General News (3rd Place)
2016 Louisville SPJ Education (2nd and 3rd Place)
2015 Emmy Nominated: Breaking News Reporting (NATAS Ohio Valley Chapter)
2015 Louisville Metro SPJ General News (1st and 2nd Place)
2015 Louisville Metro SPJ Spot News (1st and 2nd Place)
2015 Louisville Metro SPJ Health Reporting
2014 Regional Edward R. Murrow: Hard News Reporting
2014 Indiana SPJ: Investigative Reporting
2013 Indiana SPJ: Best Newscast
2013 Indiana SPJ: Best Coverage of Children’s Issues
2013 Indiana AP: Most Outstanding News Operation (group award)
2013 Indiana AP: Best Community Impact
2012 Indiana AP: Best Spot News Story
2012 Indiana SPJ: Best Spot News Coverage
2012 Indiana SPJ: Best Special Report
2011 Indiana SPJ: Best General News Story
2011 Steve Bell Excellence in News Packaging Award
References available upon request.
They are not posted on this website in order to protect the privacy of those individuals.
Education
Ball State University
Muncie, Indiana
January 2009 - May 2011
Graduated cum laude
Majors: Telecommunications and Journalism
Minor: Spanish
Activities: NewsLink Indiana, WCRD-FM, Student United Way (V.P.)
Milligan College
Johnson City, Tennessee
August 2007 - May 2008
Major: Communications
Minor: Spanish
Activities: Cross-Country, Track, Wired-TV, WUMC-FM