Meet the Team

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Jack Miller

Jack Miller is a three-time Emmy award winning journalist who’s anchored and reported across the country for more than 20 years. He joined Local 5 in Dece...
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Stephanie Angleson

Stephanie Angleson anchors Local 5 News at 5, 6, and 10. She graduated from Drake University in 2000 with a B.A. in Journalism and Mass Communications, Br...
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Elias Johnson

Iowa native and award-winning journalist Elias Johnson joined the Local 5 News team in November of 2014 and currently anchors Good Morning Iowa. Elias als...
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Sabrina Ahmed

Morning and Midday anchor Sabrina Ahmed joined the Local 5 News Team in May 2013 as a photojournalist. Born and raised in West Des Moines, she graduated from Va...
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Eva Andersen

As a native eastern Iowan, Eva considers it an honor to continue to tell stories of the people in central Iowa as a weekend anchor and weekday reporter. Eva is ...
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Matthew Judy

Matthew is a reporter and anchor with Local 5.
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Lakyn McGee

Lakyn is a morning reporter with the Local 5 News Team.
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Rachel Droze

Rachel joined the Local 5 News Team in July 2019.
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Brad Edwards

For the past 13 years, Brad's forecasts have been certified as Central Iowa's Most Accurate Forecasts by WeatheRate, the weather forecast veri...
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Taylor Kanost

Taylor Kanost is the AMS certified morning meteorologist for Local 5. The past few years have taken Taylor all over the place, but his roots are in the Mid...
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Brandon Lawrence

Brandon Lawrence joined We Are Iowa’s Most Accurate weather team and Local 5 News in June 2017. He’s thrilled to take on the challenges of weather forecasting i...
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Jon Schaeffer

Des Moines native Jon Schaeffer joined the Local 5 team in October of 2014 as Sports Director. Jon brings an emphasis on storytelling, high energy hig...
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Matt McCullock

Matt McCullock joined the Local 5 Sports team in June 2017, as weekend Sports Anchor. He may have southern roots but his hard-working personality mimics those ...
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Sarah Beckman

Sarah Beckman has been the Executive Producer at Local 5 since January 2017. She also produces Local 5’s weekly political show, “This Week in Iowa&#...