Erin Pickens is an award-winning journalist with more than ten years of experience in television news. She joined WJTV News Channel 12 in June 2002. She currently anchors the Morning and Noon newscasts.

Erin’s career in television news started in 1997 in her hometown of Memphis, Tennessee. There, she worked as an Assignment Editor and Weekend Reporter at WHBQ-TV. Erin was also an anchor, reporter, and producer at both WBBJ-TV in Jackson, Tennessee and WXVT-TV in Greenville, Mississippi. While in Greenville, she received a Mississippi Associated Press award for Best Spot News coverage. Since arriving at WJTV, Erin has covered some of Central Mississippi’s biggest stories. She reported live as people across the state remembered the life and death of former Gov. Kirk Fordice. She was live in Neshoba County during the trial of Edgar Ray Killen, a reputed member of the Ku Klux Klan who was on trial for the murders of three civil rights workers in 1964. In 2004, Erin reported live from the Mississippi Gulf Coast during Hurricane Ivan. In 2005, she solo anchored three straight days of 12 hour coverage during Hurricane Katrina.

Erin is a graduate of the University of Memphis and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism. She is an active member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, as well as the National Coalition of 100 Black Women.



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