Laurie Jennings is a six-time Emmy award-winning broadcast journalist, public speaker and TV host. Her 30-year TV news career started in Youngstown, Ohio and took her to Cleveland, Boston, MSNBC and Miami. After 15 years as the main evening anchor at South Florida’s #1 WPLG-TV, Jennings stepped away 5 years ago to form her own media company, Laurie Jennings LIVE, where she represents two South Florida businesses as their brand ambassador in digital and TV marketing.

Jennings is an active philanthropist and volunteer. Since arriving from the Northeast 27 years ago, she’s been deeply involved in the community through “United Way Miami” as a board member and now trustee, and as an emcee for dozens of charitable events for “Baptist Hospital”, “Voices for Children”, “Holtz Children’s Hospital”, “American Red Cross” and “Chapman Partnership for the Homeless.” After giving birth to micro preemie identical twin boys in 2006, Jennings proudly co-hosted the March of Dimes’ annual “March for Babies” for over a decade.

“Miami New Times” voted Laurie “Best TV News Anchor” in 2012. “Florida Monthly Magazine” voted her “Best Local TV Anchor” in 2010. “Broward/Palm Beach New Times” voted Laurie “Best TV News Anchor” in 2008. Laurie received Voices for Children’s “Most Valuable Protector” Award in 2007, United Way’s “Starfish Award” in 2011, and was honored by the March of Dimes as a “2019 Woman of Distinction”.

Jennings was inducted into the National Academy of Television and Science’s “Silver Circle” in 2020 for her distinguished career in broadcast news. And most recently, Chapman Partnership honored Laurie with the “Trish Bell Lifetime Achievement Award” for her impact on dozens of Miami’s premier charities.

Jennings graduated with highest honors from Cornell University, majoring in Government and Spanish Studies, and then earned her master’s in journalism from Northwestern University.