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Jeannette Reyes

Jeannette Reyes returns to D.C. for FOX5 anchor job

November 5, 2020 by Veronica Villafañe

Jeannette Reyes is leaving WPVI-TV, the ABC-owned station in Philadelphia, where she has worked for over 4 years.

Currently a 6ABC morning anchor, she’s moving back to Washington, D.C. to join the morning news show at FOX5.

Reyes will co-anchor FOX 5 Morning with Steve Chenevey from 6 to 9 am and then join the entire morning team on Good Day DC from 9 to 11 am.

She previously worked in the nation’s capital as a general assignment reporter at ABC affiliate WJLA from 2014 to 2016. Her husband is Robert Burton, a morning co-anchor at WJLA.

The daughter of Dominican immigrants, born and raised in Providence, Rhode Island, Reyes also worked as a reporter at ABC affiliate KATV in Little Rock.

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  1. Gavin says

    November 6, 2020 at 1:54 AM

    She posted a viral Tiktok video!!! With her husband WJLA Washington Anchor Robert president Burton. I couldn’t believe they were both working in Two different markets Washington and Philadelphia. But there only hour-long drive going through Delaware which were they probably live since it’s the midway point!!!

  2. Gavin says

    November 6, 2020 at 1:56 AM

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    She posted a viral Tiktok video!!! With her husband WJLA Washington Anchor Robert Burton. I couldn’t believe they were both working in Two different markets Washington and Philadelphia. But there only hour-long drive going through Delaware which were they probably live since it’s the midway point!!!

  3. Kevin Price says

    December 19, 2020 at 12:21 PM

    Reyes will be missed

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Veronica Villafañe, Editor & Publisher

Emmy award-winning journalist and former president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ). Currently a reporter for Voice of America, she has worked as an on-air reporter, anchor, writer and producer for Spanish and English-language TV, print and online media, including Univision, Telemundo, Fox 11 News in L.A. and the San Jose Mercury News.

Hispanic media and entertainment contributor to Forbes.

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