Jennifer Bjorklund

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Jennifer Bjorklund is the morning news anchor on KNBC Television in Los Angeles. She co-anchors "Today in LA" with Chris Schauble from 5-7 am and the Channel 4 News at 11am with David Cruz. Bjorklund is KNBC's most prolific anchor with three hours per day on the air.

[edit] Biography

Bjorklund grew up in the Oakland Hills, in the San Francisco Bay area, the youngest of four children in a missionary family. As a child she traveled throughout the Middle East, living in Egypt, where her parents met and married. Her mother, Aida, is Egyptian of Armenian descent, and her father, John, is American of Swedish descent.

Bjorklund began her career in radio during her college years, moving down the California coast from California Polytechnic State University. She logged time at radio stations KCPR, KSLY, KZOZ, KKAL, KUHL, KXFM, KHTY, KTMS, KLHT, and KTYD before landing in television at KEYT in Santa Barbara in 1991. She wrote, produced and reported the news before becoming the weekend anchor there in 1994.

From Santa Barbara Bjorklund jumped directly to Los Angeles in 1997, reporting breaking news and traffic from Sky Fox for KTTV's morning program, "Good Day LA". She got back into serious reporting from the ground for the Fox 11 "News at 10" and was a regular fill-in anchor. Bjorklund made the move to KNBC in 2000 as a general assignment reporter and was a fill-in anchor for the next five years until she became a regular fixture on "Today in LA".