Meet The Team

Management

Joel Swisher
Joel Swisher
Vice President/General Manager

Joel Swisher took over as Vice President/General Manager of WSAZ in June of 2023 and has been with the company since January of 2016.

Anna Baxter
Anna Baxter
News Director

Anna Baxter is the News Director at WSAZ.

Jake Conley
Jake Conley
Creative Services Director

Sales Team

Carlton Cogan
Carlton Cogan
Local Sales Manager - Huntington

Carlton is the Local Sales Manager who joined WSAZ in 1988.

Matt Goodwin
Matt Goodwin
Account Executive

Matt joined WSAZ with over 30 years of marketing experience.

Melanie Oliver
Melanie Oliver
National Regional Sales Manager

Melanie Oliver joined WSAZ in 2009 as an Account Executive working in the WSAZ Charleston office.

Vicki Shumate-Jackson
Vicki Shumate-Jackson
Account Executive

Vicki Shumate-Jackson joined WSAZ as an Account Executive in July of 2018.

Trevan Hannahs
Trevan Hannahs
Account Executive

Trevan Hannahs joined WSAZ in the fall of 2012 as a News Team Intern and Photographer. Trevan left WSAZ to finish his college degree in 2013, but then returned in June of 2016 where he began a career working as an Account Executive.

Elijah Underwood
Elijah Underwood
Account Executive

Elijah began his career as an Account Executive at WSAZ in 2011.

Jake Bradley
Jake Bradley
Account Executive

Jake Bradley joined the WSAZ team as an account executive in October of 2021.

Sara Pucke, MBA
Sara Pucke, MBA
Digital Sales Manager

Sara Pucke is the Digital Sales Manager for WSAZ-Gray Digital Media. She has been in advertising and marketing for more than 12 years.

Kathy Smith
Kathy Smith
Account Executive

Kathy Smith joined WSAZ as an Account Executive in June of 2011

Jeffrey L Moss
Jeffrey L Moss
Account Executive

Jeff started at WSAZ in August of 2018. Previously he spent 16 years in radio before making the switch to television.

Christian Turner
Christian Turner
Account Executive

Chrisitan Turner started at WSAZ in 2022.

Dale Garrett
Dale Garrett
Account Executive

Dale was born and raised in Huntington, WV and is a 2019 graduate of Cabell Midland High School.

Gray DC Bureau

Jon Decker
Jon Decker
White House Correspondent and Senior National Editor

Jon Decker is the White House Correspondent and Senior National Editor for Gray Television and has been a member of the White House Press Corps since 1995.

Peter Zampa
Peter Zampa
Senior National Correspondent, based in NYC

Peter Zampa joined the Gray Television Washington News Bureau in June 2015 as a multimedia journalist.

Brendan Cullerton
Brendan Cullerton
Multimedia Journalist

Brendan Cullerton joined the Gray Television Washington News Bureau in March 2022 as a multimedia journalist after spending four years covering state, local, and federal politics for the CBS affiliate in Milwaukee.

Rhyan Henson
Rhyan Henson
Anchor and Multimedia Journalist

I started working at Gray TV’s Washington D.C. bureau in May of 2023. I found my calling for news while attending Butler University during the Ferguson Riots after the killing of Michael Brown, an unarmed teenager. During the chaotic times is when I realized how facts and storytelling can really impact a community.

Molly Martinez
Molly Martinez
Multimedia Journalist

Molly Martinez rejoined Gray Television in March 2022 as a multimedia journalist in the Washington News Bureau. She previously covered politics at Gray TV's KFYR-TV in Bismarck, N.D.

Ashonti Ford
Ashonti Ford
Multimedia Journalist

Ashonti Ford joined Gray Television in August of 2023. Ford is a well-traveled watchdog journalist who has worked for newsrooms around the nation, including; Tampa, Kansas City, Decatur, Wichita and Salisbury.

Stetson Miller
Stetson Miller
Multimedia Journalist

Stetson Miller joined the Gray Television Washington News Bureau in February 2023 as a multimedia journalist after working at WTOP, WJZ in Baltimore and WCBD in Charleston, SC.

Josh Rultenberg
Josh Rultenberg
Multimedia Journalist

Josh Rultenberg joined the Gray Television Washington News Bureau in July 2022 as a multimedia journalist.

Annie Andersen

Annie has worked at various news outlets in Washington, D.C., including covering the 2020 and 2022 election cycles for C-SPAN. Before that she worked at local stations in Louisiana and Virginia.

Joshua Crompton

Joshua worked at several local stations before moving to Washington, D.C.. There he launched a national morning show, "The National Desk" for Sinclair. He now works as a producer for the Gray Washington News Bureau.

Leah Vredenbregt

Leah Vredenbregt joined the Gray Washington Bureau team in June 2023 as a weekend producer. She is a recent University of Missouri grad who worked for three years in mid-Missouri news, with internships across the country in both local and national news outlets.

Michael Estrabillo
Michael Estrabillo
Video Journalist

Michael is a born and raised Ohioian who got his photojournalism start at his alma mater Ohio University working for PBS in 2007. He has gone on to work for several media outlets both locally and nationally, shooting award winning news and documentary stories, garnering him an Emmy and Edward Murrow award.

Tyler S. Smith
Tyler S. Smith
Photojournalist/Editor

Tyler Smith joined the Gray Television Washington News Bureau in July 2019 as a photojournalist/editor.

Sarah Meklir
Sarah Meklir
Production Assistant

Sarah Meklir joined the Gray Television Washington News Bureau in September 2023 as a production assistant after working as an intern for the DC Bureau in the summer of 2023. She is currently studying journalism at the University of Maryland.