Jessica Dean To Co-Anchor KYW Evening News

Jessica Dean is joining CBS-owned KYW (CBS)-WPSG (CW) Philadelphia (DMA 4). She will join Chris May as co-anchor of the stations’ weekday evening newscasts in September.

Dean will co-anchor with May on Eyewitness News at 5, 6 and 11 p.m. on KYW and on WPSG’s 10 p.m. newscast.

Dean comes to Philadelphia from KARK Little Rock, Ark., where she has been the evening news anchor since 2011. She joined the station in 2010 as weekend anchor after three years as a reporter, anchor and co-host at KATV there.

She began her career as a reporter in 2006 at KNWA-KFTA Fort Smith, Arks.

Dean is a 2006 cum laude graduate of the University of Southern California at Los Angeles where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in broadcast journalism. While at USC, she interned at Dateline NBC.