Morgan Ottier started at KWQC in September of 2010 after spending the summer interning with the station. She fell in love with the QCA and loves living here.
Jenna Jackson started at KWQC back in July 2017. Born and raised in the Quad Cities, she is thrilled to join her hometown station each morning on Quad Cities Today.
Matt Christensen is KWQC's lead investigator. A native of East Moline, Matt has led award-winning investigations in newsrooms across the country for the past two decades.
Heidi Knecht began at KWQC in April 2023 as a digital content producer. She’s worked as a newspaper journalist in the Illinois and Iowa Quad-Cities for more than 20 years.
Digital Content Producer | Weekend PM News Producer
Knox County, Illinois native, Abi Lee, joined the KWQC digital team in June 2024 as an intern. She is now both a Digital Content Producer and Weekend PM News Producer.
Jake is a Quad City native. He joined KWQC's production team in 2008 at the age of 19 and began producing Paula Sands Live in 2011. Jake's role with PSL expanded in 2016 when he became an on-air contributor.
In his second stint at KWQC, Erik has been Chief Meteorologist since his return in 2011. Prior to that Erik was with KWQC for 13 years from 1993 to 2006
Cyle joined the KWQC team in January 2023. Previously, Cyle worked at WSNN-TV in Sarasota, Florida, and Studstill Radio Group in LaSalle-Peru, Illinois.
Joey has been proud to work for KWQC since 2014. Joey is an award winning sportscaster and loves telling the stories of what makes an athlete or team so special.
Anna is an award-winning Senior Investigative Reporter with Gray's National Investigative Team, InvestigateTV. Anna has been consistently recognized for producing impactful journalism that has driven reform, prompted civil and criminal investigations, and profoundly influenced public and corporate policy.
Lee leads Gray Television’s National Investigative Team. He also is a Senior Vice President within Gray and is an anchor on both InvestigateTV+ and InvestigateTV+ Weekend.
Jamie is InvestigateTV's Director of Investigations. She coordinates content and produces stories with a particular passion for digging into government programs and waste, health care policy and education.
Greg is the Managing Editor for InvestigateTV+. Before joining InvestigateTV, he was News Director at WMC, Gray Television’s NBC affiliate in Memphis, TN.
Joce is a national senior investigative reporter focused on accountability reporting on the
failures of government agencies, product flaws and other transparency issues.
Brendan Keefe is a Peabody, duPont, National Murrow & National Emmy winning national investigative reporter and the Chief Investigator of Atlanta News First Investigates.
Brandon specializes in crime, consumer and data-driven investigations. Before joining InvestigateTV, he was assistant news director at WECT, Gray Television’s NBC affiliate in Wilmington, NC.
Michael Buckner serves as the Digital Content Manager for InvestigateTV, which includes overseeing the distribution of all content across multiple platforms.
Wade Smith serves as Gray Media's first Director of Podcast & Livestream Strategy, helping stations transform great local journalism into modern, video-first storytelling that reaches audiences wherever they watch and listen.
He started his digital career in Atlanta, GA in 2008 after graduating from the University of Alabama.
