Dawn stensland biography
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Dawn Stensland-Mendte
American journalist
Dawn Stensland-Mendte | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | Television talk show host, news anchor |
| Spouse | Larry Mendte (m. 2000) |
| Children | 2 |
Dawn Stensland Mendte is an American television talk show host and news anchor working at WJLP-TV in Freehold, New Jersey, and on WPHT1210 AM in Philadelphia. She is also a past anchor of CBS Saturday Morning. Stensland-Mendte has anchored the news at TV stations across the country including WBBM-TV in Chicago, KYW-TV and WTXF-TV in Philadelphia and WKYC-TV in Cleveland. She is married to Larry Mendte, a radio talk show host, TV news commentator and news anchor.
Biography
[edit]Education
[edit]Born in Chicago, Illinois, her family moved ganska a bit in her school years to Charlotte, North Carolina, Raleigh, North Carolina and Farmington, Minnesota, where Dawn graduated from Farmington High School. Stensland-Mendte earned a B.A. in journalism from the University of Minne
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35th Anniversary: Anchorwomen We've Loved
Married, With Children: Dawn Stensland
When Dawn Stensland came to Cleveland in 1994 to co-host the 6 and 11 p.m. weeknight newscasts on WKYC-TV 3, she was single and fresh off jobs in Fort Myers, Fla., Wisconsin and Chicago. She posed for our September 1995 cover and gave us a peek into her Beachwood apartment. Shortly after, she moved to Bay Village with her co-worker, weather forecaster Amy Hasten.
“We lived in a huge, two-bedroom condo,” Stensland says. “We had a glamorous life —going out to eat, partying in the Flats. A lot has changed since then.” Now married with two children, she’s settled in Philadelphia, where she’s lived for more than a decade.
Stensland is the 10 p.m. news co-anchor for Philadelphia’s WTXF-FOX 29.
“It’s funny to think back about Cleveland and living in luxury and now being a mom with diapers,” she says, but it’s completely wort
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Dawn’s Dark Days
As her husband, Larry Mendte, was pleading guilty to federal cyber crimes and telling the world he’d had an “improper” relationship with Alycia Lane, Fox 29 anchor Dawn Stensland had to hold it together so she could report the news every night on TV. Now, in an exclusive interview, Stensland speaks out about the e-mails she discovered, her recent miscarriage, why she’s been able to forgive her husband, and why she can’t yet forgive herself
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DAWN STENSLAND KNEW for sure, on New Year’s Day 2005, that something was wrong.
It’s not that she hadn’t suspected before then. She’d heard the rumors that started back in the fall of 2003, not long after her husband, Larry Mendte, and Alycia Lane premiered as the hot new anchor team on CBS 3. She’d gotten phone messages at her office at Fox 29 — while she was pregnant with her first child — from