Wendy Rieger

News4 Anchor

Updated 10:59 AM EST, Mon, Sep 7, 2009

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Wendy Rieger anchors News4 at 5 and reports on environmental issues in her regular series called Going Green.

Rieger joined News4 in 1988 as a general assignment reporter. She began anchoring the weekend evening newscasts in 1996, then News4 at 5 in 2001. She is also a co-host for News4 This Week, a weekly show highlighting stories from the Washington, D.C., area.

Rieger has covered news in the Washington area for more than 25 years. She started at WAMU Radio as a writer then worked her way up to host of Morning Edition. She later anchored newscasts for NPR and WTOP Radio. Her television career began in CNN's Washington Bureau.

In 2005, Rieger's first Going Green segment aired about a woman who became allergic to her own house and the eco-ways she found to counteract her bad reactions. Since then, these eco-stories have focused on topics ranging from "green" building materials to environmentally friendly products, gifts and Web sites. Rieger's reports air on NBC stations around the country, and the Going Green blog she writes on online is read by people all over the world. These stories have also inspired NBC Nightly News and several other NBC stations to produce their own series on environmental issues.

In April 2008, Washingtonian magazine readers presented Rieger with one of its inaugural Green Awards in recognition of her dedication to "preserving our environment through education." She has also received three EMMY awards, including one for a special report she shot in Vietnam on home video 20 years after the war.

A native of Norfolk, Rieger graduated from American University with a degree in broadcast journalism. Her community involvement has spanned many local organizations, including Children and the Arts and groups benefiting from the DC AIDS Ride, in which she participated three times.

Rieger divides her free time between Ireland and her Annapolis-area home where she lives with her cats, Buddy and Rudy.

Send Wendy Rieger an e-mail. You can also catch some of the lighter moments on New4, which include Wendy, on the station's Facebook page.

First Published: Oct 13, 2008 2:00 PM EST

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