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MARDA LE BEAU Marda Le Beau is proud of her 40 years working in Chicago news at ABC 7 and CBS 2. From desk assistant to news writer to producer and executive producer, she has loved every minute of her career covering everything from war in Israel to sex-abuse conferences at the Vatican as well as supervising investigations into corruption here in Chicago. Marda was born in Chicago and raised in suburban Lombard. Most of her time in high school was spent in Thailand where her microbiologist father was working in epidemic control. She graduated from Mundelein College which is now part of Loyola University. Her news career started in the late 1970s when she was hired to answer phones on the ABC 7 assignment desk. Later, she produced the 4pm and 6pm news as well as the 10pm weekend shows. But the turning point in her career came when she started producing stories on the health beat. She and anchor/reporter Mary Ann Childers had a long partnership covering health and medicine. Their motto was knowledge is power. The more you know about your health, the more you can take control. They took a critical look at treatments and procedures such as Lasik and the complaints and side effects no one was talking about. She honed her skills as a writer and segment producer on the health beat and began to delve into investigations. Marda and Mary Ann were assigned to Israel during the Persian Gulf War in 1991 when Israel was attacked by 40 Scud missiles. Fears were high that Iraq would use chemical weapons. Over the weeks of the conflict, they covered the political situation and the human stories of Israeli and Palestinian families coping with the stresses of war, gas masks and sealed rooms. For the last 14 years of her career, Marda was the Executive Producer of the CBS 2 Investigators. Award winning stories by the investigative unit included the critical ambulance shortage in Chicago, a company spewing fumes linked to cancer into a suburban neighborhood, Chicagoans getting billed tens of thousands of dollars for water they did not use and Chicago police terrorizing families by raiding the wrong homes. Marda has won a national Emmy ® and 10 regional Emmy ® Awards as a producer and 12 more as an executive producer in addition to Peabody and DuPont Awards. She juggled this rewarding career with marriage and a daughter. All of it made possible by Ronald Klein, her incredibly supportive and sharing husband who passed away seven years ago. Marda’s daughter, Adina Klein, is now a segment producer at Fox 32 Chicago. Since retiring in May of 2019, Marda has become a docent at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center where the mission is to encourage all of us to be upstanders and speak out when we see injustice. She feels it is an extension of her many years working in investigative news.
JENNIFER LYONS Jennifer Lyons joined CBS 2 Chicago as President and General Manager just last month, another step up the management ladder for an executive with a proven track record of success in the Chicago television market. As the former Vice President of News for NewsNation, Jennifer led the creation and launch of the new national cable news outlet. Under her leadership, a daily three-hour newscast and all digital products were put in motion to deliver unbiased national news. She oversaw the design and buildout of NewsNation’s 24-hour newsroom and studio. Jennifer is an award-winning television news executive with 30 years of experience, more than 27 in Chicago, the 3rd largest TV market in the United States. Since 1993, she has worked in a variety of capacities at Chicago’s WGN-TV including Executive Producer of the WGN Morning and Midday News, Director of News and Content from 2014 to 2020 and Assistant News Director from 2008 to 2014. An innovative and industry leading journalist, Jennifer led the conversion of the traditional broadcast newsroom into a successful multi-platform digital operation by enabling and organizing the distribution of content on a variety of digital outlets. She also led the charge to expand WGN’s news footprint by several hours, producing more local news than any other Chicago station, 75.5 hours weekly. Newscasts can be seen on WGN-TV, WGNTV.com and the WGN-TV News app. She began her career in Davenport and Des Moines Iowa, working as a news photographer, live truck operator and producer for KWQC and WHO after earning a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Journalism and Mass Communications from Iowa State University. Her Awards include Chicago/Midwest Emmy ® and Silver Dome awards. And in 2017, Jennifer was named News Director of the Year by Broadcasting & Cable Magazine. She serves on the Advisory Council for Iowa State University’s Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication, she is a member of The Chicago Network and she is active in The Mercy Home for Boys and Girls Leader Council.
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