CNN.com announced that Reggie Aqui has joined its online anchor team…
Reggie Aqui has joined the CNN.com anchor team, it was announced today by Sandy Malcolm, executive producer of CNN.com video. As a CNN.com anchor, Aqui will guide users through news reports and breaking news coverage on the site’s live video service and will anchor “Now in the News,” a fast-paced hourly Web- and wireless-exclusive news update. He will also provide updates on CNN/U.S. and Headline News about the most popular stories on CNN.com.
“As the most popular gateway to news on the Web, CNN.com stands as the only news site offering multiple live video streams as well as full-time anchors,” Malcolm said. “The addition of Reggie helps us to continue to grow a well-rounded team of journalists for CNN.com, enabling us to give our users the news they want, how they want it and when they want it.”
Aqui began his career as a reporter in 1998 with WKYT-TV in Lexington, Ky. In 1999, he began a six-year stint in Wisconsin, reporting and anchoring first for WLUK-TV in Green Bay and then for WDJT-TV in Milwaukee. Aqui later reported for KHOU-TV in Houston, where he documented the personal struggles of hundreds of thousands of New Orleans residents during their evacuation and relocation in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. When Hurricane Rita hit the Texas Coast, he reported from Galveston during one of the largest evacuations in U.S. history. Before moving to Atlanta, Aqui worked as a freelance correspondent for CNN in Chicago.
Aqui obtained his bachelor’s degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
