Elyse's Full Bio

Emmy Award-winner Elyse Evans has joined the News12 Networks reporting team. Now based in Woodbury, New York, she can be seen on various broadcasts throughout the day on News 12 Long Island. You can also hear Elyse as a radio anchor on New York's first all news FM radio station, WEMP 101.9.

Prior to her move to New York, Elyse was main anchor for NBC2 evening news in Terre Haute, Indiana and also worked as a freelance reporter for highly-rated WTHR-TV in Indianapolis.

In her four years as evening news anchor, Elyse scored a number of widely- acclaimed interviews conducted locally, nationally and internationally. She is particularly proud of a dynamic one-on-one sit-down with now-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton during her 2008 presidential primary campaign. Elyse also documented a tour of the German death camp Auschwitz with a Holocaust survivor.

For the 2010 ceremonies marking the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Elyse traveled to Poland with a group including Terre Haute's mayor Duke Bennett and death camp survivor Eva Kor, who founded the C.A.N.D.L.E.S Holocaust museum in Terre Haute. Working with other journalists from around the world, Elyse wrote, produced and delivered a seven-part Telly Award winning mini-series. It focused not only on the bone-chilling site of the atrocities but also Kor's message of forgiveness.

Elyse says the trip was a life-changing event. "It put a whole new reality on the events portrayed in books and movies. Seeing Auschwitz not only with my own eyes, but also through a survivor's eyes, was astonishing. Being able to share the story with the people in my community was a powerful gift."

In 2009, Elyse won a prestigious Emmy award for news writing. She investigated why a vicious triple murder of a mother and her two young daughters had not gone to trial three years after the crime was committed, even though the stepfather and accused murderer had admitted his guilt upon capture. Elyse explained why the trial had so many delays, and she made taxpayers aware of a new tax created to pay for all his jail costs.

She is a graduate of Indiana University-Bloomington, Magna Cum Laude, with a degree in Broadcast Journalism and Psychology.

Elyse takes great pride in being a journalist and feels highly honored by the respect and confidence that viewers have shown her. "I love what I do, and it's gratifying to be a face, voice and mind that people turn to and trust as their source for news."