Lisa Sylvester

Lisa Sylvester is an American Peabody and Emmy award-winning journalist and television correspondent. She previously reported on CNN's The Situation Room. She joined WPXI, Channel 11 in Pittsburgh in October 2013, anchoring the 6 and 11 p.m. and on WPGH's 10 p.m. newscast, which is produced by WPXI.

Career
She earned a bachelor's degree in international economics at Georgetown University and then a master's degree from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. She worked for KTVI-TV in St. Louis, for WMBD-TV in Peoria, Illinois, and for WKRN-TV in Nashville, Tennessee before her start in major network news. She worked for ABC News from 2000 to 2004, and as the Washington-based correspondent for Lou Dobbs Tonight. She then moved to CNN and she served as a Washington, D.C.-based correspondent for The Situation Room.