Media Moves

Indianapolis TV station taps Turner to serve as anchor and reporter

Dakarai Turner

Dakarai Turner will join WISH-TV Ch. 8, a CW affiliate in Indianapolis, Ind., as an anchor and reporter. He will begin on Nov. 20. For the past three years, he has been an anchor and investigative reporter at WHBQ-TV Ch. 13, a Fox-affiliate in Memphis.

Turner also worked as a general assignment reporter at both WFLD-TV Ch. 32, Chicago’s Fox outlet, and at ABC station WMAR-TV Ch. 2 in Baltimore. He also reported for WLTX-TV Ch. 19, a CBS station in Columbia, S.C.

Turner co-anchored and reported for DePaul University’s student newscast “Good Day DePaul,” and interned at Chicago’s WFLD-TV Ch. 32 and NBCUniversal.

Turner has a B.A. in broadcast journalism from DePaul University in Chicago.

Be sure to congratulate Turner on X/Twitter.

Mariam Ahmed

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