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Eric Mansfield
Channel 3 News Evening Anchor/Akron-Canton Bureau Chief
Eric Mansfield co-anchors Channel 3 News at 7 and reports for WKYC's 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts.
Eric joined WKYC as an Akron bureau reporter in May of 1994. From 2001-2008, Eric assumed the additional duties as anchor of "PAX23News" which later became "Akron-Canton News" on Time Warner Cable.
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Eric became host of the weekly reporters' roundtable, "NewsNight Akron," on PBS 45/49 in 2007.
An Akron native, Eric 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 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 an Emmy awards for Outstanding Service Reporting and Outstanding Live Reporting. Eric has been nominated for several 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 retired from the military after 20 years of faithful service.
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