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Lesli Foster

Lesli Foster is an Emmy award-winning journalist who anchors the 9 NEWS NOW weekend morning newscasts on W*USA 9 on Saturday and Sunday mornings. She also fills in on the anchor desk on weekdays and covers stories around the region as a 9 NEWS NOW general assignment reporter.

Lesli, who joined W*USA 9 in 2001, is a featured journalist in the book "Women Journalists at Ground Zero" by Judith Sylvester and Suzanne Huffman, which documents personal experiences of 24 female journalists who covered September 11th. She has interviewed many national luminaries including former New York City Mayor Rudolph Guilliani, Queen Noor, Dorothy Height, Vernon Jordan, Walter Cronkite, Danny Glover, Pat Buchanan and many others.

Prior to joining W*USA 9, Lesli was a reporter for WBAL-TV, where she was named Best TV-News Personality by Baltimore's CityPaper. She began her career in her native Michigan, where she was a weekend anchor and reporter for WEYI-TV, an NBC affiliate in Flint, Michigan.

A graduate of DC's Howard University, Lesli gives her time to many causes and organizations throughout metropolitan Washington. Journalism, she says, is her life's work, and an essential way to make a difference in the lives of people.