New staff lineup for WCPO 9 income display ‘Cincy Lifestyle’

CINCINNATI  — The WCPO 9 weekday way of life display, “Cincy Life-style,” is energized to announce the promotion of Pete Scalia to full-time host and to introduce two new users of the internet hosting team, Mikhayla Hughes-Shaw and Michelle Hopkins.

Hughes-Shaw joins the crew as a multimedia journalist/fill-in host and Hopkins completes the team as a multimedia journalist/part-time host.

Scalia joined the “Cincy Lifestyle” crew as the multimedia content producer in August 2021. He commenced hosting total-time on June 15. The Cincinnati native has expertise as a morning news anchor, site visitors reporter and in behind-the-scenes operate for news departments in Cincinnati, Dayton and Columbus, Ohio. He’s also a voice-in excess of artist and skilled musician who has opened for Ted Nugent, Lousy Corporation and played keyboards for a funk band manufactured by Bootsy Collins.

Hughes-Shaw’s sturdy history in media includes tv reporting, journal producing, podcasting and social media management. She is the receiver of an Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Electronic Reporting and has most just lately worked as the host of lifestyle present, “Living Area,” on WHBF-Television in the Quad Metropolitan areas. Hughes-Shaw attained her Bachelor of Arts in journalism and mass communication with a certification in critical cultural competence from the College of Iowa. She is a former Miss out on Iowa and advocated for mental health awareness and suicide prevention in the course of her tenure.

“Joining the ‘Cincy Lifestyle’ group is a aspiration appear accurate. I’m psyched to see all that the Queen Metropolis has to present,” explained Hughes-Shaw. “I’m on the lookout ahead to learning what makes this city tick and bringing that to daily life by way of storytelling.”

Hopkins previously labored at WCPO 9 as an anchor/reporter in the late 1990s. Given that that time, Hopkins stayed included in media as a morning information anchor, shopper reporter at…