Meet The Team

Diane co-anchors 13abc Action News at 5, 6 and 11 along with Lee Conklin. She is an award-winning journalist who's been honored with Emmy awards, Associated Press awards and Edward R. Murrow awards for her work on-air and she's helmed newscasts that have earned the stations dozens of awards as well.

Lee Conklin is an Emmy award-winning anchor and reporter who’s been at 13abc for 28 years. He co-anchors the 5, 6, and 11 o’clock newscasts with Diane Larson. He also co-anchors the 5:30 newscast with Kristian Brown.

Sashem Brey grew up loving two things: talking and TV. Now she is proud and grateful to have made a career out of both!

James Starks was born and raised right here in Toledo and has traveled all over both as an athlete and a journalist. He returns to his hometown to join the team on 13abc Action News Good Morning.

Kristian has been a member of the 13abc news team since 2002 and anchors weekdays alongside Lee Conklin at 5:30 pm.

Christina joined 13abc in 2007 and currently anchors the weekend evening shows at 6 and 11 PM.

Tony Geftos is a 2-time Emmy award-winning journalist and former president of the Ohio Associated Press Media Editors (2018-19). Tony started at WTVG-TV in June of 2000. He heads up The Restaurant Report Card, seen every Thursday during the evening news.

As a reporter with 13abc, McKenzie has been nominated for two Emmys and received first place for general news reporting from the Ohio Association of Broadcasters. She anchors 13abc Action News at Noon during the week and Action News Good Morning on the weekends.

Jack Bassett joined the 13abc team in July 2020 after graduating from Indiana University with a Bachelor of Arts in Cinema Production and Visual Communication.

Ashley Bornancin is a morning reporter and multimedia journalist, excited to join the 13abc Action News Team.

Josh Croup started at 13abc in February 2021. He previously was the evening anchor at WDTV in West Virginia.

Lissa has spent most of her life in the Toledo area with four generations of her family and decided at the age of five that she wanted to be a television anchor/reporter.

Eric returns to WTVG after previously working with the 13ABC sports team back in 2012. He started his career in television here, in Toledo, before stops in Roanoke, VA and Raleigh, NC.

Shaun Hegarty serves as the Investigative Reporter for 13abc Action News.

Alexis Means joined the 13abc Action News team in October of 2001 and has spent nearly two decades telling stories about the people and events happening in and around Toledo, Ohio.

Kayla Molander joined 13abc as a multimedia journalist in January 2020.

Ashley Smith got her start at 13abc as a News Producer in February 2019, and now doubles as a Multimedia Journalist and Weekend Evening Producer.

Melissa has been working in television news in Toledo for over 20 years and has received multiple AP Awards and Emmy nominations during this time. Six of those years have been at 13abc where she earned an Emmy for her reporting about the Heroin Epidemic. It's sparked her latest interest in Investigative Reporting.