Channel 3 News Akron Reporter/Weekend 6 & 11 PM Anchor
E-mail: ericmansfield@wkyc.com
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Eric Mansfield reports for WKYC's 6, 7 and 11 p.m. weeknight newscasts and anchors the 6 & 11 p.m. weekend news.
Eric joined WKYC as an Akron bureau reporter in May of 1994. From 2001-2008, Eric assumed the additional duties as anchor of "PAX 23 News" which later became "Akron-Canton News" on Time Warner Cable.
Eric is proud to host the weekly reporters' roundtable, "NewsNight Akron," on PBS 45/49, now Western Reserve Public Media; it's a role he has held since 2007. His contributions include several documentaries, including "Reporting the War" about the challenges local journalists face in covering Iraq and Afghanistan.
An Akron native, Eric will graduate this fall with a Masters Degree in Public Relations from Kent State University. He earned a B.A. in Journalism and a second B.A. in Broadcasting from the University of Dayton. While in college, Eric hosted an evening sports call-in show on WDCR-AM (campus radio) while completing television internships with WAKC-TV (Akron), WHIO-TV (Dayton) and ESPN. In 1991, he was named the Omar Williams Award winner as the University's top broadcasting graduate.
Eric began his professional broadcast career doing play-by-play sports announcing in college and later anchored overnight news reports at WHIO-TV in Dayton. In 1992, Eric came home to Akron as an anchor-reporter with WAKC-TV.
Eric's recognition includes Emmy awards for Outstanding Service Reporting, Outstanding Live Reporting, and Outstanding Continuous Coverage for the Channel 3 News series "Project AED", which identified dozens of local areas that were in need of the life-saving devices. Eric has been nominated for many other Emmy Awards including Outstanding Anchor. His work has also been honored by the Cleveland Press Club, the Ohio Associated Press and the Ohio Broadcasters Hall of Fame.
A Major in the Ohio National Guard, Eric spent 14 months on active duty in 2003-04 in Iraq and Kuwait and responded with other Ohio Guardsmen in 2005 to the Gulf Coast to assist with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. He also responded to help lead a platoon of MPs at the Lucasville Prison riot in 1993, and he was the honor graduate and class president of his Officer Candidate School class. Eric is a graduate of multiple military leadership and management academies including the Defense Equal Opportunity Military Institute (DEOMI) in Coco Beach, FL. Eric's awards include the Army Commendation Medal (2) and service ribbons for Iraq, Hurricane Katrina, and other deployments; his commander nominated him for the Bronze Star for his service in Iraq. Eric retired from the military with 20 years of faithful service.
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