Travers Mackel biography
Travers Mackel is a well-known American journalist who currently hosts the 4 pm and 5 pm news on WDSU Monday through Friday. It also features WDSU’s ‘Hot Seat’ segment on Sunday nights at 10:30pm. Mackel has been a mainstay of WDSU since 2003, and has been a part of all the top news in the field for over ten years. Travers expresses his admiration for what he does.
Mackel spent more than three years reporting for WLBT-TV in Jackson, Mississippi, before joining WDSU. He served as an anchor and reporter for KTVE-TV in Monroe, Louisiana, and as an anchor and reporter for KTVE-TV in Monroe, Louisiana.
Travers earned his bachelor’s degree from Loyola University in New Orleans. He was a member of the Loyola baseball team as a shortstop in college. Mackel has won more than a dozen honors from the Press Club of New Orleans. He also received awards from the Associated Press of Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina devastated the area in 2005.
Travers received multiple Emmy Awards and was crowned “Louisiana Journalist of the Year” by the Associated Press. Likewise, the same group honored him as “Reporter of the Year” in Louisiana in 2014.
Mackel was part of the WDSU News team that received the 2018 National Murrow Award and won or was part of four Edward R. Murrow regional award winning entries.
Mackel also received the National Headliner Award, which is one of the oldest and largest annual national honors for journalistic excellence. The news coverage award went to Mackel and WDSU.
One of Mackel’s investigative reporting was identified as a contributing factor to WDSU receiving the Walter Cronkite National Award for Excellence in Political Journalism in 2015.
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Mackel has extensive experience reporting high-profile public corruption cases as well as criminal prosecutions. He served as the station’s point man for former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin’s federal corruption trial, and he was the only television reporter to get an interview with him since he was charged, convicted, and imprisoned.
Likewise, Travers covered the federal corruption case against former Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard, as well as the murder trial of the guy convicted of shooting and killing former New Orleans Saints player Will Smith. In 2009, Mackel spent a few weeks in Washington, DC, covering the bribery trial of former Louisiana congressman William Jefferson.
Furthermore, his reporting took him all over the world. Travers was a member of the Hearst Television team assigned to cover the 2016 Rio Olympics and the 2018 PyeongChang Games. Mackel was part of a WDSU news team that went to upstate New York in 2015. Hearst WPTZ television in its ongoing coverage of the Dannemora prison break.
In 2016, he traveled to Daytona Beach, Florida to cover Hurricane Matthew. In 2018, he covered Hurricane Florence in North Carolina and South Carolina. Mackel has made several appearances on CNN and MSNBC, including “The Rachel Maddow Show”. Travers appeared as himself on an episode of HBO’s “Treme,” which was filmed in New Orleans, and as a reporter on “This Is The End,” which was also filmed in New Orleans.
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In the summer of 2005, Mackel covered Hurricane Katrina, which was the most important story of his career. He was one of the few journalists who managed to stay at the Louisiana Superdome during the storm and provide live eyewitness reports when parts of the roof were ripped off.
He was also on a police boat, telling spectators the story of the rescue operations in New Orleans hours after the levees broke and much of the city was flooded. In the weeks following the storm, Mackel provided much of the station’s 24-hour coverage and was included in the documentary “Seven Days That Changed New Orleans.”
Travers Mackel Age
How old is Travers Mackel? Markel he was born about September 19in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the USA. He, however, did not reveal his birth year to the public. He its between 36 and 40 years from 2022. Also, Travers celebrates his birthday in September 19and your zodiac sign is Virgin.
Travers Mackel family
Mackel he was born for your parents Judy Mackel and the late Frank Mackel. New Orleans is where he was born and raised. Travers’ father was a New Orleans golf pro for many years.
In addition, Mackel has a twin brother named Fletcher Mackel who works at WDSU as a sports anchor and reporter.
Travers Mackel’s Wife
Mackel is happy married for his wife Meg Gatto, anchor and reporter for KVUE FOX 8 News. the duo tied the knot about May 25, 2018. Together they have two daughters Finley Elizabeth Mackel born March 26, 2019 and Ellison Grace Mackel born January 2021. Ellison weighed 6 pounds 13 ounces when he was born.
Height of Travers Mackel
Mackel stays in one height of 5 feet 9 inches tall (1.75 m).
Travers Mackel Salary
Mackel earn an average annual salary from among 45,000 – $110,000.
Travers Mackel’s net worth
Mackel have an estimate net worth from among $1 million – $5 million. Travers’ fortune stems from his work as a journalist.
