Paula Francis | |
Birth Date: | 12 March 1952 |
Birth Place: | Queens, New York City, New York, U.S. |
Alma Mater: | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
Occupation: | Journalist |
Television: | KTNV-TV (1985–1990) KLAS-TV (1990–2016) |
Paula Francis (born March 12, 1952)[1] is an American journalist.
Francis was born in Queens, New York City, New York.[2] Paula's TV news career started in Madison, Wisconsin and later moved to Las Vegas in 1985 where she started at KTNV-TV as the evening anchor until she joined KLAS-TV in 1990 as the evening anchor alongside Gary Waddell. Paula has won eight Las Vegas Review-Journal Best of Las Vegas awards and several humanitarian awards for her involvement in the community.
She has appeared in over a dozen episodes as herself as the news anchor in .[3]
Francis retired from anchoring on April 1, 2016.