Wall to Wall Devastation Coverage for Shreveport Stations
KTAL, KSLA, and KTBS continue to dedicate their newscasts to covering the devastation left behind by Hurricane Katrina. I caught KTAL's 10pm newscast Wednesday night and was really impressed by the reports of Shannon Slatton, Jason Clark and Kimberly Williams who are down in South Louisiana. The Shreveport station's websites are filled with info and stories pertaining to the devastation. I am betting the station's will continue to cover this story as long as evacuees from South Louisiana are in the Ark-La-Tex.
UPDATE: 09/01 6:20am KTAL anchors Jason Patrick and Lane Stone are back on the air this morning anchoring the station's morning program.
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She has experience on the anchor desk and in the field, reporting on a wide variety of stories over the years, from investigative to feature reports. Lyndall was the weekend anchor and a general assignment reporter at KARK-TV, the NBC affiliate in Little Rock, Arkansas. She worked in Little Rock for more than four years and was recognized by the Arkansas Associated Press for achievement in documentary reporting. Lyndall’s first job was as a general assignment reporter and fill-in anchor at KTEN-TV, the NBC station in Denison, Texas. Lyndall grew up in Oklahoma and attended college at Arkansas Tech University, graduating cum laude with bachelor’s degrees in journalism and speech communication. She also has a master’s degree in mass communication from Louisiana State University.
Christy has close to ten years of experience in both television and radio media. She's spent the last seven years working in television news in Shreveport.
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Carla began her career in broadcasting at the age of 19 at an Oklahoma City radio station where she anchored the news and was a morning show co-host. This first job opportunity led her to a two year stint at National Public Radio affiliate KGOU/KROU in Norman, Oklahoma where she anchored the evening news and reported for the morning show while enrolled as a full time student.
Mike worked as a general assignment reporter at KARK and as a reporter/fill-in anchor at KTAL in Shreveport, LA. He also worked as a reporter/producer/photographer for KLAX-TV, an ABC station in Alexandria, LA and started his career in broadcast journalism with a cable news program called First Edition News in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
De Cample is originally from the suburbs of Seattle, Washington. He attended Washington State University, graduating summa cum laude as a phi beta kappa.
former KATV'er Mary Nguyen is in the spotlight today.
His first broadcasting experience was in 1989 as a news reporter for KOSA-TV in Odessa, Texas. From 1990 to 1992, Ken worked as a reporter at KLTV in Tyler, Texas. His broadcasting experience also includes one year as a sports anchor at KLAX-TV in Alexandria, Louisiana and Bureau Reporting at KTBS-TV in Texarkana, Arkansas.
At Indiana University in Bloomington, she anchored the college news and interned at several television stations, including a CBS affiliate. After her success in Illinois, she anchored the morning and noon show for KSLA (CBS) in Shreveport, Louisiana and worked as a reporter for WCIA, the CBS affiliate in Champaign, Illinois. 
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