2016

Reporter and Weekend Anchor,  KNSD (NBC, San Diego)

Leaderless movements: the rise of digital activism  Judge

Danya Bacchus is a reporter/weekend anchor for the NBC owned and operated station in San Diego, California. Prior to arriving in San Diego, Bacchus was a general assignment reporter for WREG, the local CBS News station in Memphis, Tennessee. She also worked as a reporter/weekend anchor at WMDT in Salisbury, Maryland. Bacchus began her career as an assignment editor at WXLV in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists and currently serves as president of the San Diego Association of Black Journalists. She graduated from North Carolina A&T State University.