KTNV Las Vegas Adds Three Reporters

E.W. Scripps-owned ABC affiliate KTNV Las Vegas (DMA 41) has added three new journalists to its Action News team:

• Mahsa Saeidi joins as a general assignment reporter. She comes from NY1, Time Warner’s 24-hour cable news channel in New York where she was a freelance general assignment reporter. She is a University of Virginia graduate with a Juris Doctor degree from the Brooklyn Law School. She worked in the Kings County District Attorney’s office in Brooklyn, N.Y., as an assistant DA prior to making a career switch to journalism. Her first day is June 29.
• Marissa Kynaston is joining KTNV as a reporter-multimedia journalist. She most recently was an MMJ and weekend anchor at WBND South Bend, Ind. Kynaston is a Pepperdine University graduate and starts Aug. 3.
• Stephanie Zepelin is a reporter who will lead KTNV’s You Ask, We Investigate unit. She comes to Action News from KTVB Boise, Idaho. Zepelin has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri.