WGNO News Adds Bill Wood, Ups Vanessa Bolano

Tribune-owned ABC affiliate WGNO New Oleans (DMA 51) has named Bill Wood reporter on WGNO’s News with a Twist. WGNO has also promoted Vanessa Bolano to weekend news anchor.

“Wild” Bill Wood, an 11-time Emmy-winning features reporter, joins WGNO as a reporter for its “eccentric” News with a Twist at 5 and 6 p.m. He joins the station from WFTX Fort Myers, Fla.

Wood graduated with a master’s degree from Northwestern University and holds a Phi Beta Kappa key from the University of South Carolina.

Vanessa Bolano, who joined the WGNO News Team in 2009 as a reporter, will now anchor WGNO’s 5 and 10 p.m. weekend newscasts. She will also report for WGNO News at 10pm during the week. Prior to her post at WGNO, Bolano was a reporter and anchor at KTEN Sherman, Texas. Bolano, who is fluent in Spanish and English, received a bachelor’s degree from Boston College and a master’s degree from the University of Miami.