In her journalism program, Anne was one of a small number of students selected for the Cronkite News Service where she was sent to cover statewide stories including immigration issues on the Arizona-Mexico border. Anne was chosen by the college to participate in the Hearst competition for feature reporting. She was also selected for a paid internship at ABC15 Arizona and simultaneously served as president of the second largest student organization at ASU her senior year, The Panhellenic Council, even winning a national award for launching an incentive ceremony that awarded peers for achieving high GPAs.

Professional work as a student

During college, at age 19, Anne landed a job at Arizona Public Television where she worked various positions behind the scenes (studio camera operator, floor director, graphics, audio, technical director) and was even responsible for putting makeup on politicians including then-Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano for weekly political roundtable show Horizon. After being promoted, Anne was placed in a coveted student-position writing and producing live PBS pledge drive programs which raised tens of thousands of dollars for the local public television station.

Television Career

NBC 5, KOBI-TV Medford, Oregon

Anne landed her first job as a TV reporter at age 22 in Medford, Oregon at NBC 5 KOBI-TV in 2008. She started on weekends and was eventually promoted to Morning Anchor. She was responsible for numerous high-profile investigative reports and covered several national stories including the disappearance of 8-yr-old Kyron Horman. She was the only TV reporter to record footage of the West Coast tsunami of 2011 in Crescent City, CA which aired on NBC News and CNN.

NBC 4, WSMV-TV Nashville, TN

From Oregon, Anne jumped 100 markets to take a job as Morning Reporter at WSMV-TV NBC 4 Nashville, TN in 2012.

Within a year, she was promoted to Breaking News Anchor and was made a regular morning anchor fill-in. She also filed reports for the evening newscasts. In Nashville, Anne won three Emmy awards for her reporting on the morning news and for coverage of a deadly tornado.

CBS 6, WRGB-TV Albany, NY

After three years in Nashville, Anne landed a position as the 12pm, 5pm & 5:30pm anchor in Albany, NY at CBS Albany WRGB-TV in 2015. Several years into her tenure, Anne was moved off the 12pm news and was promoted to primary early evening co-anchor on the flagship 6pm news alongside Greg Floyd. In addition to anchoring, Anne filed regular investigative reports and general assignment reports until 2020 when she volunteered to cover the New York State Capitol in-person while 80 percent of the staff was sent to work from home because of the Covid-19 virus.

Anne continued anchoring at the news station and never worked remotely through the pandemic. Anne attended Governor Andrew Cuomo’s daily Covid-19 press conferences and became known for intensely questioning Governor Cuomo over his pandemic mandates including problems with the state's unemployment system, nursing home policies, group home policies, mask policies and his choice to shutter businesses. Anne's reporting resulted in help for more than 5,000 New Yorkers who could not reach the unemployment office during the forced closure of businesses, many of whom were desperate for income. Her reporting on  unemployment garnered international media attention. She closely followed allegations from 13 women who accused Cuomo of sexual harassment and even returned to work early from her wedding to cover Cuomo’s resignation and the transition of his successor, New York’s first female governor Kathy Hochul. Anne was nominated for six New York Emmys for political reporting during the pandemic including Best Political Reporter, Best Political Report and Best Interview.