Cassie Walder
WDAZ News Director
Cassie is a Brookings, S.D. native who joined WDAZ during the spring of 2001. As News Director she takes great pride in running the WDAZ newsroom. She has her Broadcast Journalism degree from South Dakota State University. Her television career includes work for South Dakota Public Television, and Sioux Falls-based KELO-TV, where she was a reporter-photographer during college. Cassie has jumped from co-anchoring WDAZ News at 10 to now co-anchoring WDAZ News at 6 with Milo Smith. As News Director she is also the station's daily Assignment Editor. This year WDAZ News won five first-place awards from the North Dakota Associated Press, many of those stories focused on our continuing coverage of the Dru Sjodin story.
cwalder@wdaz.com

Terry Dullum
WDAZ News Anchor and Producer
For the past seven years, Terry has been the anchor and producer of WDAZ News @5. He is a Hillboro, N.D., native. Terry received a bachelor's degree from the University of North Dakota. He is also a U.S. Army veteran. Terry worked at Bismarck's KXMB-TV for several years before coming to WDAZ in 1975. His years of feature reporting evolved into the video essays, "The Dullum File," which air each Friday on WDAZ News @6 and WDAY News @10 in Fargo. His news efforts during the 1997 flood disaster helped WDAZ win a national Edward R. Murrow Award. He is also a popular speaker throughout the region. In 2005, Terry marks his 30th anniversary at WDAZ.
tdullum@wdaz.com

Milo Smith
WDAZ News Anchor and Producer
Milo co-anchors WDAZ News at 6 and 10. In addition to his on-air duties, Milo is the producer for the six o'clock news and helps Lori Cowan put together the 10 o'clock program. He is a North Dakota native whose first job in broadcasting was as a part-time DJ at the AM radio station in Bowman, N.D. while he was in high school. Milo went on to receive a degree in Broadcast Journalism from NDSU. He joined WDAZ in 1996 after working in TV news in North Dakota and Washington state. Milo was a key contributor to WDAZ's national Edward R. Murrow award-winning effort during the 1997 Red River flood. WDAZ News at 6 was named the Best Newscast in the state for 2003 by the North Dakota Associated Press and a story Milo did on small town high school football won an award in the feature category. Milo has served as chairman of the American Heart Association Heart Walk the past two years and is on the Board of Directors of the Grand Forks YMCA.
msmith@wdaz.com

Lori Cowan
WDAZ News Anchor/Reporter and Producer
This is Lori's third position at WDAZ since her hiring in May of 2003. She was originally hired as a general assignment reporter. She then produced and anchored WDAZ Weekend News for a year. Lori grew up on a ranch near Pierre, S.D, where most of her family currently lives. She is the second graduate of South Dakota State University on WDAZ News' staff (Cassie Walder is the other). While attending college, the Northwest Broadcast News Association reqcognized two of her stories with a first place and an honorable mention in student market categories. In 2004, NBNA honored her again with a first-place Eric Sevareid Award in general reporting for "Remembering Dru Sjodin." For the three-part series, Lori and photographer Chris Regimbal traveled to Pequot Lakes, MN, for in-depth interviews with Sjodin's family, friends, teachers and classmates.
lcowan@wdaz.com

Tami Osborne
WDAZ Reporter/Weekend Anchor
Tami joined WDAZ as a reporter in the Fall of 2004, and was hired as Weekend Anchor shortly after. Born in Nashville, TN, Tami moved a lot with her family while she was growing up, most recently calling Marshfield, MA her home for the last nine years, and where her parents still live with her two younger brothers and younger sister. Tami graduated from Stonehill College in Massachusetts in May 2003, with a degree in communication and a minor in journalism. Tami then went on to get her master's degree in broadcast journalism from the University of Miami in 2004. While at the University of Miami, she worked on the school's UMTV NewsVision program, where she served as an anchor, producer, and reporter. Tami started her career in the newsroom in the summer of 2004 as an intern at WBZ/CBS-4 in Boston. Because she's from the Boston area, Tami is a big fan of the New England Patriots and Boston Red Sox! Though she's lived many places, she now considers Grand Forks her home!
tosborne@wdaz.com

James Degelder
WDAZ Photographer
James is a Red River Valley native from Pembina, ND.  He has his Journalism degree from the University of North Dakota, where he spent four semesters working on the school's "Studio One" program.  James has also worked as a one-man-band reporter.  In February of 2004 James joined the Home Team as a reporter.  As a photographer, he spends time in the field shooting video with reporters.  He also anchors and shoots video for WDAZ sports.
jdegelder@wdaz.com

Chris Regimbal
WDAZ Chief News Photographer
Chris grew up in Stephen, Minn., and has a speech communications degree from Moorhead State University in Moorhead, Minn. Hired as a WDAZ sports photographer in 1991, Chris later joined WDAZ News and in early 2001 became chief news photographer. His assignments included two stories in the Middle East and one in Europe. Chris' memorable video of the 1997 flood and fire in downtown Grand Forks has aired internationally on news reports and documentaries, and his efforts helped WDAZ News win a prestigious national Edward R. Murrow Award for broadcast excellence. Honors for Chris also include one Northwest Broadcast News Association first-place award and four Awards of Merit and two North Dakota Associated Press Broadcast Awards. Chris also is a photographer for "live" coverage of University of North Dakota hockey, basketball and football games seen on WDAZ and cable television's "Fighting Sioux Sports Network." He also co-produced "A River Rising," WDAZ News' video of its coverage of the 2002 Roseau County flood disaster. His work on a 2002 story about Young's Store in Middle River, Minn., received a small station Award of Merit for Best Use of Video from the Northwest Broadcast News Association.
cregimbal@wdaz.com

James R. Johnson
Managing Producer
James R. Johnson, known around the newsroom as "JJ", has been with WDAZ News for the better part of 19 years. He handles many important duties behind the scenes including writing, editing video for newscasts as well as WDAZ's Agenda program. He also updates news stories on WDAZ's website. JJ is a graduate of the University of North Dakota and was part of WDAZ's Murrow Award winning coverage of the 1997 flood.
jljv@wdaz.com

Bill Haug
WDAZ News at 5 Market Report
A native of Grafton, N.D., Bill is a North Dakota State University engineering graduate whose three-year stint in the U.S. Army included a tour of duty as a Corps of Engineers platoon leader in Vietnam. He was discharged as a first lieutenant in 1971. Bill farmed in the Grafton area until working in farm lending from 1981 to 1987. He became a Piper Jaffray investor in 1988, transferring to PaineWebber (now UBS PaineWebber) in 1993. A divisional vice-president, Bill serves as the local branch manager and a producing advisor who specializes in equity portfolio management. Bill has provided market reports for WDAZ News at 5 since the newscast's debut in October 1997. Bill's staff substitutes for him on Channel 8 at times.
news@wdaz

John Wheeler
WDAZ Television and Radio Meteorologist
John was born in Baton Rouge, LA, and grew up near Birmingham, Alabama. As a teenager, his family moved to Madison, Wisconsin and later to a small town in northeast Iowa. John traces his early interest in weather to the difference in climate between Alabama and Wisconsin. He is a graduate of Iowa State University with a degree in meteorology. John has been a meteorologist at WDAZ since May of 1985.
jwheeler@wday.com

Daryl Ritchison
WDAZ Television and Radio Meteorologist
Daryl was born and raised in southern Minnesota. He received a master’s degree in geography from Mankato State University. Daryl joined the WDAZ weather staff in 1996. He now handles the morning weather forecasting and reporting duties on WDAZ's First News, and WDAY radio.
dritchison@wday.com

Pat Sweeney
WDAZ Sports Director, Anchor and Producer
Pat is a St. Paul native who graduated with a journalism degree from that city's College of St. Thomas. Pat worked as a Minneapolis Tribune copy editor, then worked at Williston's KUMV-TV and Dickinson's KQCD-TV before coming to WDAZ in 1982. Pat became Channel 8 sports director in 1983. His "Sports Minuses" have been a WDAZ staple since 1984. Pat is the play-by-play voice of University of North Dakota hockey, football and basketball "live" telecasts as part of the "Fighting Sioux Sports Network," seen on WDAZ, on Forum Communications TV stations and on cable television throughout the Dakotas and Northwest Minnesota. He also is WDAZ's host and producer for the "Sioux Football" coaches show. Pat is a two-time North Dakota Sportscaster of the Year recipient, and his work for WDAZ News during the 1997 flood disaster helped Channel 8 win a 1998 Edward R. Murrow Award for spot news coverage.
psweeney@wdaz.com

John Bernstrom
WDAZ Sports Weekend Anchor and Producer
John Bernstrom, a native of Lancaster, MN, graduated from the University of North Dakota with a Bachelor of Arts and Science degree in the spring of 2001. John started working in the WDAZ Sports department part-time during college in the fall of 1998. As a part-time photographer, John traveled with the University of North Dakota football and basketball teams to shoot highlights for the WDAZ/UND coach's shows. In January of 2001, John was hired full-time as the weekend sports anchor and a weekday sports reporter. He has hosted the Sioux Basketball show since 2002 and has been a part of WDAZ's unprecedented coverage of Sioux sports. He also does sideline reporting, color commentary, and has filled in for Pat Sweeney to do play-by-play for Sioux Hockey. He's proud to be a member of the WDAZ Home Team.
jbernstrom@wdaz.com