{{short description|American television journalist and news anchor}} {{Use American English|date=December 2022}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2022}} '''Lisa McRee''' (born November 9, 1961) is an American television journalist and news anchor, of the Emmy Award Winning LA TIMES TODAY. Born in Fort Worth, Texas. She is a former co-anchor of ''Good Morning America''.
==Career== She was a news anchor and reporter for KERO-TV in Bakersfield, California and WFAA-TV in Dallas, Texas, before becoming one of the original anchors, along with Aaron Brown, of ABC News' ''World News Now'' when the show launched in January 1992.<ref name="Adweek-2012jan">{{cite news |last1=Ariens |first1=Chris |title='World News Now' Celebrates 20 Years |url=https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/world-news-now-celebrates-20-years/ |access-date=2025-11-13 |work=Adweek |date=January 6, 2012}}</ref> McRee left the show in January 1993 to serve as a reporter for the ABC news magazine program ''Day One'', although that stint was short-lived,<ref name="LATimes-1993jun">{{cite news |last1=Du Brow |first1=Rick |title=Life With a Changing 'World': Television: Aaron Brown departs ABC's 'World News Now' on Friday. He is the most visible remaining vestige of original team |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-06-26-ca-7277-story.html |access-date=2025-11-13 |newspaper=The Los Angeles Times |date=June 26, 1993}}</ref> and subsequently as a host for ''Good Morning America Sunday'', and an anchor and correspondent for Lifetime Magazine.
She then moved to Los Angeles, California, in 1994 to work as an anchor and reporter for KABC-TV.
In 1997, she was hired to replace Joan Lunden as co-anchor of ''Good Morning America''.<ref name="NYT-1998mar">{{cite news |last1=Mifflin |first1=Lawrie |author-link=Lawrie Mifflin |title='Good Morning' Names 2d New Anchor |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/24/arts/good-morning-names-2d-new-anchor.html |access-date=2025-11-13 |work=The New York Times |date=March 24, 1998 |page=C17}}</ref> She then was paired with Kevin Newman after Charles Gibson left the show in 1998. However, ''Good Morning America'', which had been struggling in the ratings, continued to perform poorly. Both she and Newman were replaced in 1999<ref name="NYT-1999jan8">{{cite news |last1=Bumiller |first1=Elisabeth |author-link=Elisabeth Bumiller |title=Public Lives; New Officer Posted to a Listing ABC Ship |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/08/nyregion/public-lives-new-officer-posted-to-a-listing-abc-ship.html |access-date=2025-11-13 |work=The New York Times |date=January 8, 1999|page=B2}}</ref> and reassigned to other duties within ABC News.
From 2004 to 2007, McRee was a host and correspondent for ''California Connected'', a TV news magazine that aired on 12 PBS stations in California. During McRee's tenure, ratings improved 43% in her last year. The program was canceled due to a lack of funding.
In February 2017, McRee began filling-in as the co-anchor of ''Good Day L.A.'' on KTTV, the Fox owned-and-operated television station in Los Angeles.
In November 2018, McRee became a news anchor for the recently created ''Spectrum News 1'' Network, co-anchoring the morning show and anchoring the evening show, LA TIMES TODAY, a co-production of The Los Angeles Times and Spectrum News 1.
She is a winner of multiple Emmy Awards, the 2007 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Journalism Award for reporting and producing California Connected: War Stories from Ward 7-D.{{Citation needed|date=November 2025}}
In, 2021 McRee won the Los Angeles Press Club's award for Television Journalist of the Year.<ref name="LA Press Club 2021">{{cite web |title=Southern California Journalism Awards: Complete List of Categories |url=https://lapressclub.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/SOCAL-2021-WINNERS.pdf#:~:text=Judges'%20comment:%20Combining%20an%20understanding%20of%20complex,the%20Television%20Journalist%20of%20the%20Year%20award. |publisher=Los Angeles Press Club |access-date=2025-11-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211128151104/https://lapressclub.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/SOCAL-2021-WINNERS.pdf |archive-date=November 28, 2021 |date=October 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref>
==Filmography== {| class="wikitable sortable" ! Year ! Title ! Role |- | 2015 | ''Terminator Genisys'' | Chat Show Host |}
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== External links == *{{IMDb name|name=Lisa McRee|id=0574486}} *[https://spectrumnews1.com/ca/la-west/on-air/2018/11/14/lisa-mcree-anchor Staff page] at Spectrum News 1
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