Anchors
Sandra Mitchell
An award-winning journalist, Sandra has been reporting the news in Los Angeles for more than a decade. Sandra currently anchors KCAL 9 News at 4 p.m., 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. Sandra also reports and anchors for sister station CBS 2 News.
Sandra has been honored with two Golden Mike Awards and an Emmy Award. A gifted storyteller, Sandra has reported from the scene of many of Southern California's biggest stories, including the devastating 2003 and 2007 wildfires and the Scott Peterson murder investigation and trial. Sandra also anchored live coverage of the deaths and funerals of former presidents Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford.
Sandra is a magna cum laude graduate of the Temple University School of Broadcast Journalism in Philadelphia.
She began her career in print journalism, reporting for her hometown newspaper in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and later for the Pulitzer Prize-winning Philadelphia Inquirer. She transitioned to television news, anchoring and reporting for the CBS station in Huntsville, Alabama and later in New Orleans and St. Louis. Sandra has also reported for ABC News and "Good Morning America," covering the crash of TWA Flight 800 in New York. In 1999, she made the jump to Los Angeles, working for the syndicated television show "EXTRA," before joining CBS 2 and KCAL 9.
Sandra has been married for 23 years to her college sweetheart, now a commercial actor and writer. They have a bubbly 8 -year-old daughter, a crazy Siamese cat, "Twiggy," and a new rat terrier puppy, "Twila."
Sandra enjoys helping others as a member of her neighborhood board of directors, the annual host of "Make A Difference Day" in Santa Clarita and through her church. She recently completed her first half marathon.
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