Anna Davlantes is an American journalist who presently co-anchors Good Day Chicago for WFLD-TV.

Davlantes is a five time regional Emmy award winner, including an Emmy for "Get into the shark tank." She returned to her native Chicago after working at the ABC affiliate WPTA-TV in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and also worked as the primary anchor for the Fox station KRIV-TV in Houston. She is hosted the Gabby Awards at Ellis Island in June 2011. Anna and David Gamperl were married in April.

Notable Work

In May 2003, Davlantes broke a story that gained national media attention by being the first to acquire a video showing seniors hazing juniors at a powder puff game in Northbrook, Illinois

Northbrook, Illinois

Northbrook is a village located at the northern edge of Cook County, Illinois, which is also a North Shore suburb of Chicago. The population was 33,170 at the 2010 census....

. The exposure of the powder puff hazing incident at Glenbrook North High School

Glenbrook North High School

Glenbrook North High School, or GBN, is a public four-year high school located in Northbrook, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States...

 led to national hazing reform. Davlantes appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show

The Oprah Winfrey Show

The Oprah Winfrey Show is an American syndicated talk show hosted and produced by its namesake Oprah Winfrey. It ran nationally for 25 seasons beginning in 1986, before concluding in 2011. It is the highest-rated talk show in American television history....

 to talk about the problems of youth hazing.

In 2005, Davlantes aired a series of reports exposing mob intimidation in Bridgeview, Illinois

Bridgeview, Illinois

Bridgeview is a village in Cook County, Illinois in the United States. It is located approximately from the Chicago Loop. As of the 2010 census, the village population was 16,446...

. She received several threats while investigating the piece. The Chicago Headline Club recognized her work by awarding her the Ethics Award in Journalism .

Davlantes' experience as a diver allowed her to host the documentary "Get Into the Shark Tank!" which aired on NBC Chicago. The documentary is filmed almost entirely underwater in the shark tank at the Shedd Aquarium

Shedd Aquarium

The John G. Shedd Aquarium is an indoor public aquarium in Chicago, Illinois in the United States that opened on May 30, 1930. The aquarium contains over 25,000 fish, and was for some time the largest indoor aquarium in the world with of water. The Shedd Aquarium was the first inland aquarium with...

. Davlantes is also credited with the first underwater live shot on a local newscast .

Career

WPTA-TV Fort Wayne, Ind.

WXIN-TV in Indianapolis

Chicago public broadcaster WTTW

WTTW

WTTW channel 11 is one of three Public Broadcasting Service member public television stations serving the Chicago, Illinois market; the others are WYCC and WYIN. WTTW began broadcasting on September 6, 1955 and it is owned and operated by Window to the World Communications, Inc., a not-for-profit...

-Ch. 11

NBC

NBC

The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

-owned WMAQ-TV

WMAQ-TV

WMAQ-TV, channel 5, is an owned-and-operated television station of the NBC Television Network, located in Chicago, Illinois. WMAQ-TV's main studios and offices are located within the NBC Tower in the Streeterville neighborhood, with an auxiliary street-level studio on the Magnificent Mile at 401...

-Ch. 5

WFLD-TV in Chicago

Awards

Ethics Award in Journalism from The Chicago Headline Club

Herman Kogan Award from The American Bar Association

Emmy Award

Emmy Award

An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...

 for "Get Into the Shark Tank!"

Education

Lane Tech High School

Oxford University

Medill School of Journalism

Medill School of Journalism

The Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications is a constituent school of Northwestern University which offers both undergraduate and graduate programs. It has consistently been one of the top-ranked schools in Journalism in the United States...

 at Northwestern University

Northwestern University

Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....

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