Jennifer Gilbert, Class of 1986

Jennifer Gilbert is s a highly-respected member of the news media, anchoring the weekday newscasts for Baltimore’s FOX 45 at 5:30 and 10 p.m. She has worked at Channel 45 since 1993.

After high school Miss Gilbert studied at the Medill School of Journalism of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where she received a Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism. She began her career in journalism as a reporter at Florida Today, a newspaper in Melbourne, Florida. Next, Miss Gilbert became a television news reporter for WGAL Channel 8 in Lancaster.

Miss Gilbert has won two Capital Region Emmy Awards since coming to Fox 45. One of these was for a story titled “History of a Gun,” which tracked the violence connected to a pistol that fell into the wrong hands. She has won numerous awards from the Associated Press and the Society of Professional Journalists, and in 2002 was chosen as “Best News Anchor” by Baltimore Magazine.

In her free time, Miss Gilbert enjoys playing the piano, playing tennis, antique shopping, and spending time with her husband and nine-month-old son at their family’s second home in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. She also enjoys visiting her parents at her childhood home in Upper Oxford Township.

—John Bradley