Liz Anderson Biography
Liz Anderson is an American multimedia journalist working for WTOP serving as an anchor, reporter, and producer. She has been working for the station since February 2014 after working for Salem Communications.
Liz Anderson Age
Anderson likes to keep her personal life private hence she has not yet disclosed the date, month, or year she was born, however, she might be in her 50s.
Liz Anderson Height
Anderson stands at an approximate height of 5 feet and 4 inches.
Liz Anderson Family
Anderson has managed to keep her personal life away from the limelight hence she has not disclosed any information about her parents. It is also not known if Anderson has any siblings.
When she is not working, she enjoys singing, writing, reading, learning to play guitar from YouTube and instruction books, and gathering information about herself from family members. She loves vegetarian comfort food, haystacks, Italian, Indian, Mexican, and soul food.
Liz Anderson Husband
Anderson is very private about her personal life therefore it is not known if she is in any relationship. There are also no rumors of Anderson being in any past relationship with anyone.
Liz Anderson Net Worth
Anderson has an estimated net worth of between $1 Million and $5 Million which she has earned through her successful career as an Anchor, Reporter, and producer.
Liz Anderson Salary
Anderson earns an annual salary ranging from $ 45,000 – $ 110,500.
Liz Anderson Education
Anderson attended Oakwood College (now Oakwood University) in 1992 where she graduated with a bachelor of Arts in Communication degree in 1996. Later, she joined California State University-Dominguez Hills in 2002 where she attained teaching credentials in Education. Afterward, Anderson joined American University in 2007 where she graduated with a master’s degree in Journalism and Public Affairs in 2008. Anderson served as an intern-Talk of the Nation at NPR from June 2008 to August 2008 . Additionally, she was an intern at WAMU 88.5FM. from September 2007 to December 2007. In addition to her internship, she worked for WDRM Radio as an Intern, News Announcer, and Weekend Announcer from July 1994 to June 1997.
Liz Anderson WTOP News Career
Anderson works for WTOP serving as an anchor, reporter, producer, and assistant producer the role she started in April 2020. Anderson has been working for the station since February 2014. She served as the assistant editor, editor, and reporter at WTOP News from January 2016 to April 2020.
Her Assistant editorial duties included supporting editors, reporters, and anchors with day-to-day newsroom operations. In addition to this, she carrys out a wide range of tasks that include reporting, production, writing, and researching relevant topics to interview newsmakers. Liz also discuss current news stories, transforming information from conversation notes, recorded audio, press releases, official newsmaker social media accounts and other sources into radio broadcast-style copy for anchors to read on-air under extreme deadline pressure. Additionally, Liz edits pre-recorded long-form interview audio to fit within time constraints without sacrificing quality or meaning, communicates with reporters about story deadlines. Moreover, she conceives and files initiative-driven wraps and long-form interviews, curation team for WTOP’s ‘Daily Flash Briefing’ for Amazon Alexa users.
Her Editorial roles were as follows Booking hourly lineups and rundowns, telephoning government agencies to verify listener tips, gathering information on breaking news events. Additionally, Liz delegates the task to an AE, communicating with reporters regarding assigned stories and deadlines, collaborating with reporters about possible story angles, if needed.
Liz Anderson Other WTOP News Career
As a reporter Liz performed the following duties gathering information from a range of sources including law enforcement public information officers, city and county officials, sports figures, musicians, and other sources over the phone or in person. Liz is also quickly researching and synthesizing background material, crafting and reporting on-air stories under deadline pressure on a wide variety of subjects. Additionally, she Writes for WTOP.com, photographing images and shooting iPhone video to complement digital stories.
Furthermore, Liz tweets to establish station presence when reporting in the field, functioning as a simultaneous solo field producer, reporter, videographer, and writer. In addition to this, she works with broadcast and digital editors to complete on-air stories and digital reports for station website. Liz also cultivates and maintains professional rapport with sources. From when she first joined WTOP in February 2014, she served as an assistant News Editor to December 2015.
Liz Anderson Career
Anderson took another job at Sinclair Broadcast Group as the National Show Producer of The National Weather Desk from August 2022 to date (January 2024). Previously, Liz had joined BNC as an executive producer of the DC Today from April 2020 to April 2021 and was later promoted to the position of senior producer in May 2021 a position she held upto March 2022.
Before joining WTOP News, Liz worked at Salem Communications from June 2009 to February 2014 as the News Announcer and Board Operator. During her tenure here, she performed the following roles; compiling news, traffic, and weather reports, scripting and voicing stories for morning news announcers among others.
Previously, Anderson worked at Columbia Union College as from September 2008 to December 2011 as an Instructor in the Communication and Journalism Department. She also prepared and delivered lectures and acted as an advisor to student organizations. Around the same between September 2010 to February 2011 Anderson worked as a freelance writer for Patch.com.
Initially, Anderson served as a teacher at Los Angeles Unified School District where she taught 5th grade, kindergarten, and 1st grade from November 2001 to June 2007. She taught Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, physical education, Social Skills and emotional management. Anderson joined KWVE Radio in October 1998 as an Announcer and Public Affairs Director where she worked until November 2001.
Anderson kickstarted her career as an Announcer and News Anchor at WOCG Radio (now WJOU) from September 1992 to August 1995. She also was an On-air afternoon news anchor and music announcer and she hosted “Back in the Day Fridays” on-air celebration of gospel music from the 70s and 80s.
Liz Anderson WTOP
Anderson is working at WTOP where she works alongside other famous WTOP meteorologists, anchors, and reporters including;
- John Aaron
- Shawn Anderson
- Michelle Basch
- Brennan Haselton
- Anne Kramer
- Dean Lane
- Mark Lewis
- Dimitri Sotis
- Ralph Fox
- Heather Gustafson
- Jenny Glick
- Stephanie Gaines-Bryant
- Nick Iannelli
- Sarah Jacobs
- Luke Lukert
Liz Anderson Social Media Platforms
She is active on her social media accounts and is often seen posting on her Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. She has over 689 followers on Twitter.