KTNV Las Vegas Adds Reporter Jeremy Chen

Scripps-owned ABC affiliate KTNV Las Vegas (DMA 39) has hired reporter/MMJ Jeremy Chen beginning Sept. 3.

He comes to Las Vegas after working three years at KESQ Palm Springs, Calif., as a morning reporter and fill-in anchor, where he covered various national stories including the Turpins torture case, the Pinyon Pines triple murder trial and the Palm Springs mayor corruption scandal.

Before going to the desert, Chen worked for more than a year as a multimedia journalist and fill-in anchor for KAEF Eureka, Calif. While on the North Coast of California, he had the opportunity to report on a variety of stories ranging from medical cannabis to economic development to homelessness.

Chen graduated cum laude from the Annenberg School for Journalism at the University of Southern California with a B.A. in broadcast journalism and a minor in Chinese. There, he spent more than four years working at USC’s student-run news station, Annenberg TV News. He has been an assignment editor, a video journalist and a reporter/anchor for the station.

Chen also interned at KCBS-KCAL Los Angeles where he wrote anchor scripts and packages as well as web feature stories.