Daphne Adato

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Daphne Adato has been News Director with WCCO Radio since 2011. Born and raised in San Diego, she has two degrees from University of California Santa Barbara and an M.S. in Broadcast Journalism from Syracuse University.

Her first job in TV news was producing at WBOC in Salisbury, Maryland where she also learned to shuck a blue crab. She moved to Phoenix in 2007 to take a position at Arizona’s Family station, KTVK-TV. There she made the transition to radio and executive produced Arizona’s Morning News with Ned & Connie for KTAR-FM. Some of the more memorable coverage in her career includes the Virginia Tech mass shooting, interviewing firefighters in NYC for the 5th 9/11 anniversary, the Congresswoman Giffords assassination attempt, and the largest wildfire in Arizona’s history. Her stations and her work have been the recipient of Emmy, Associated Press, Murrow, Eric Sevareid and Marconi Awards.

This is her first experience living in the Midwest, and to use a phrase straight from southern California, she’s pretty stoked about it.