Suzanne Le Mignot

Suzanne Le Mignot is a television news anchor and reporter for WBBM-TV in Chicago.

Early life and education

Le Mignot earned a bachelor's degree with honors in mass communications from the University of South Florida^[1] in 1993.^[2]

Professional career

Le Mignot began her broadcasting career while she was in college, working from 1989 until 1993 at the University of South Florida-owned, PBS-affiliated, WUSF-TV in Tampa, Florida as a production assistant and associate producer.^[1] She also worked as a news anchor and reporter at Radio & Television Serbia, Trecan Kanal, and RTV Studio B in Belgrade, Serbia from 1991 until 1992.^[1]

After college, Le Mignot joined WBBM radio in Chicago as a news anchor and reporter in 1994. In 1995, she joined WTMJ-AM in Milwaukee as an anchor-reporter.^[3] She also worked briefly as a news anchor at WGN-AM in Chicago before rejoining WBBM in late 1996.^[4]

Le Mignot began working for WBBM-TV as a free-lance reporter in 1995, and moved up to full-time status with the station (and therefore quit WBBM radio) in late 1999,^[5] when she became WBBM-TV's correspondent for Chicago's South Side and south suburbs.^[6] In 2000, Le Mignot became an early morning news anchor at WBBM-TV, a role she held until 2001, when she returned to dayside general assignment reporting duties.^[7][8][9]

In February 2002, the Chicago Sun-Times reported that Le Mignot's contract would not be renewed by WBBM-TV, and she briefly left the station.^[10] However, she signed a new contract in June 2002 and returned to the station.^[11]

In early 2006, Le Mignot became the weekend morning news anchor at WBBM-TV. She current co-anchors with Mike Puccinelli, and she also performs general assignment reporting during the week.^[12]

In 2007, WBBM-TV management considered promoting Le Mignot to being weekend evening news anchor. However, station bosses promoted Mai Martinez to the role instead.^[13][14]

Awards

Le Mignot won an Associated Press award in 2007 for a piece she reported on the inability by commuter railroads' bomb-sniffing dogs to detect explosives. She also won local and national Emmy awards in 2008.^[1]

Personal

Le Mignot lives in the Gold Coast area of Chicago with her daughter.^[1]