Eric A. Paulsen is an anchorman for WWL-TV

WWL-TV

WWL-TV, virtual channel 4, is the CBS-affiliated television station serving New Orleans, Louisiana, southeast Louisiana and parts of southern and coastal Mississippi, and is the primary CBS station for South and Coastal Mississippi. It broadcasts on UHF digital channel 36...

 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He has been part of the news team since April

April

April is the fourth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars, and one of four months with a length of 30 days. April was originally the second month of the Roman calendar, before January and February were added by King Numa Pompilius about 700 BC...

 1977.

Paulsen was born in St. Louis, Missouri

St. Louis, Missouri

St. Louis is an independent city on the eastern border of Missouri, United States. With a population of 319,294, it was the 58th-largest U.S. city at the 2010 U.S. Census. The Greater St...

, and attended Southern Illinois University. It was there he began his broadcasting career, reporting, writing and anchoring for the student-run 5 o'clock newscast that aired on the local Public Broadcasting Service

Public Broadcasting Service

The Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia....

 station.

Paulsen started WWL-TV's Morning News broadcast in the late 1970s. He later went on to host the local version of the nationally-syndicated show PM Magazine with Lea Sinclair from 1979 until 1984. Paulsen also conducted the last in-depth broadcast interview with Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams

Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III was an American writer who worked principally as a playwright in the American theater. He also wrote short stories, novels, poetry, essays, screenplays and a volume of memoirs...

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Paulsen has co-anchored the Eyewitness Morning News since 1985, first with Andre Trevigne and then with Sally-Ann Roberts

Sally-Ann Roberts

Sally-Ann Roberts is an anchorwoman for WWL-TV in New Orleans, Louisiana. She has been part of the news team since March 1977 and has co-anchored the "Eyewitness Morning News" with Eric Paulsen for over twenty five years...

. He assumed anchoring WWL's "Twelve O'Clock News" upon the retirement of Bill Elder

Bill Elder (newscaster)

William Stanley Elder Jr. was an anchor/investigative reporter for the New Orleans CBS affiliate WWL-TV Channel 4 from 1965 to 2000, nicknamed the "Mike Wallace of Louisiana" because of his hard-hitting stories....

in February 2000.