Elise Preston

Reporter/Weekend Daybreak Anchor

Elise Preston joined the News Channel 3 team in October, 2011.

Elise reports and co-anchors Weekend Daybreak.

Previously, she was a reporter for the CBS affiliate, KFDA in Amarillo, TX.

Before covering wildfires in the Texas panhandle, Elise worked as an assignment editor at WVEC in Norfolk, VA. Elise is a proud alumna of Hampton University in Hampton, VA.

She earned a bachelor of arts degree in broadcast journalism from the Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications.

The Columbus, Ohio native is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.

If you want to share story ideas with Elise, or just say hello, her email is elise.preston@wreg.com.

Recent Articles

  • Fayette County Families Clean Up Sunday After Powerful Storm

    Posted on: 8:37 pm, April 28, 2013, by , updated on: 08:44am, April 29, 2013

    (Fayette County, TN) Sunday, families, friends, even strangers spent the day cleaning up and looking over damage after a powerful...
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  • Car Sharing Starts In Memphis

    Posted on: 6:21 pm, April 25, 2013, by

    Key will be left in the car and a special card will be used to open the car
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  • Questions Surface in 6th Deadly Officer Involved Shooting This Year

    Posted on: 6:17 pm, April 24, 2013, by , updated on: 12:17pm, April 24, 2013

    Mayor and police director defend officers
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  • Terrorists’ Actions Don’t Stop Memphis Crawfish Festival Goers

    Posted on: 6:31 pm, April 21, 2013, by

    Some thought about not attending but chose to do so anyway
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  • Customers Worried About Cars After Saying They Received Bad Gas

    Posted on: 5:31 pm, April 20, 2013, by

    (Memphis) More than half a dozen drivers say they now have to get their cars fixed, after pumping bad gas...
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  • Man Accused of Sending Tainted Letters Faces Judge

    Posted on: 10:22 pm, April 19, 2013, by

    (Oxford, MS) A Corinth man accused of sending toxic letters to the President, a Mississippi Senator and a state court...
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  • BBB Warns of Boston Explosion Charity Scammers

    Posted on: 4:21 pm, April 17, 2013, by , updated on: 04:56pm, April 17, 2013

    There are more than 125 domain websites with names connected to the Boston terror attack
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  • Weekend Marks 2-year Disapearance Of College Student

    Posted on: 8:24 pm, April 13, 2013, by

    (Parsons, TN) This weekend marks two years since anyone has seen or heard from a young college student. For more...
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  • Two Hurt In Westwood House Fire

    Posted on: 3:54 pm, April 12, 2013, by

    Unattended candle may to be blame for a fire
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  • Man Arrested For First Degree Murder In Orange Mound

    Posted on: 1:11 pm, April 10, 2013, by , updated on: 05:51pm, April 10, 2013

    Police say Darius Bell tried to kill a man after robbing him
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  • Cause of Lewisburg Fire Under Investigation

    Posted on: 9:45 pm, April 2, 2013, by

    Firefighters aren’t sure what sparked the inferno, but are hoping other families learn from it
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  • Memphis Ranks One of the Worst Cities For Allergies

    Posted on: 9:33 pm, April 2, 2013, by

    Shocker!
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