Alycia Lane - the Emmy-Award winning anchor

is the Emmy-Award winning anchor of CBS 3’s Eyewitness News at 6 and 11 p.m. with Larry Mendte. Alycia Lane is also featured on her weekly series, A Woman’s View that takes a look at issues unique to women.
Alycia Lane joined CBS 3 in September, 2003, where, in addition to anchoring, her early experience as a street reporter was quickly put to use with her live coverage of the Atlantic City casino garage collapse in addition to much of Philadelphia’s wild weather that season including tornados, floods and hurricanes.
    In 2004, Alycia Lane was the first reporter to speak one-on-one with Luzaida Cuevas, the mother of Delimar Vera, the six-year-old girl who was snatched from her crib days after her birth and raised by her kidnapper. Later, during the 2004 Presidential Election, Alycia Lane obtained exclusive interviews with First Lady Laura Bush, Lynne Cheney, and Teresa Heinz Kerry.
    Alycia Lane showed her versatility by anchoring live from Jacksonville, Florida during the Eagles fated appearance at Super Bowl XXXIX. Alycia Lane was also featured in Home Field Advantage, a news series that profiled Eagles players at home. In addition to her news role, she has also hosted CBS 3’s annual Best of Philly specials and its Holiday Traditions special for which she won a local Emmy Award in 2005.
Before coming to Philadelphia, Alycia Lane had been weekend anchor and reporter for WTVJ-TV, the NBC station in Miami, Florida. Alycia Lane joined that station in September, 2001, quickly distinguishing herself with her coverage of the impact of September 11th on the region, from the hunt for suspected terrorists to her in-depth reports on the backlash felt by Florida’s Muslim community. Alycia Lane’s major assignments there also included Hurricanes Michelle and Isadore and the investigation into the anthrax attack on the National Enquirer tabloid publisher American Media. Previously, Alycia Lane was a reporter for WSVN, the FOX affiliate in Miami where she covered the Elian Gonzalez story.
     Alycia Lane was also an anchor/reporter for cable news station News 12 in New York, covering the shooting death of Amadou Diallo by New York City police among other stories. As a result of one of her investigative pieces there, Alycia Lane is credited with helping to free a wrongly accused man from prison.
   Alycia Lane began her career as a Washington-based reporter for KSNT-TV in Topeka, Kansas while completing her Master’s Degree in Broadcast Journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Alycia Lane, who is fluent in Spanish, received her undergraduate degree from the State University of New York at Albany in Spanish Language and Literature, graduating with honors.
     Active in the community, Alycia Lane volunteers her time locally to support the Susan G. Komen Race For The Cure held each Mother’s Day in Philadelphia and has also been instrumental in bringing the message of early detection of breast cancer to the Spanish-speaking community as moderator of the first Latinas For The Cure workshop in 2004.
      Alycia Lane, who is of Puerto Rican heritage, is a member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. A native of Long Island, New York, Alycia Lane now resides in the historic Society Hill section of Philadelphia.

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