Meet The Team

Weather Team

Melissa Cole
Melissa Cole
Reporter and Meteorologist

Melissa Cole is an Emmy-nominated Reporter and Meteorologist for WFSB. You can see her feature stories weekly on Better Connecticut. She serves as a fill-in Meteorologist, lending a hand during major weather events.

Mark Dixon
Mark Dixon
Chief Meteorologist

Mark Dixon can be seen weekdays on Channel 3 Eyewitness News from 4:00 to 6:30 pm and at 11 pm. Additionally, he hosts “Science Sunday” …a segment done in partnership with the Connecticut Science Center, airing every weekend. He has been part of the Channel 3 Early Warning Forecast Team since July 2003.

Jill Gilardi
Jill Gilardi
Meteorologist

Jill Gilardi joined Channel 3 Eyewitness News on November 9, 2022. Jill most recently spent 9 years in Birmingham, Alabama at WBRC Fox 6 News, which is a sister station to WFSB. She also served viewers in Omaha, Nebraska for 2 years; Springfield, Missouri for 6 years; and started her career in 2004 in St. Joseph, Missouri.

Scot Haney
Scot Haney
Meteorologist

Scot Haney keeps Connecticut updated with the most-accurate weather forecasts especially tailored to the morning commute. You can see Scot weekdays on Eyewitness News This Morning from 4:30 to 7 a.m., He also co-hosts "Better Connecticut" weekdays on Channel 3 at 3 p.m.

Lorin Richardson
Lorin Richardson
Meteorologist and Reporter

Lorin Richardson is a Meteorologist and Reporter at WFSB. She has completed the 17 courses required for the Broadcast Operational Meteorology Program at Mississippi State University and is currently taking more courses online to get her Bachelor's Degree in Meteorology.

Mike Slifer
Mike Slifer
Meteorologist

Mike is a Connecticut native, thrilled to be forecasting for his home state. He spent 3 years in southern West Virginia and 3 years in Portland, Maine before returning to Connecticut in 2022.

Sports Team

Marc Robbins
Marc Robbins
Sports Reporter

Marc is a veteran award winning broadcaster with more than 30 years of experience, spending the last 25 years in Connecticut. This is Marc's second stint at WFSB. In addition to Marc's role in Sports and News at WFSB, he works at ESPN Radio as a Sportscenter Anchor.

Joe Zone
Joe Zone
Sports Director

Joe Zone joined Eyewitness Sports as the sports director in January 2006. He began his career at a radio station in Syracuse, N.Y., after which NBC took him to Los Angeles, where he worked at KNBC-TV as weekend sports anchor

Investigative Team

Cassidy Williams
Cassidy Williams
Consumer Investigative Reporter

Cassidy Williams is the consumer investigative reporter for WFSB Channel 3. She joined the team in January 2023. Cassidy is excited to be back on the East Coast for the first time since graduating high school. She was born and raised in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

Sam Smink

Sam Smink couldn't be happier to be the new Chief Investigative Reporter for WFSB Channel 3, joining the Eyewitness News Team in August 2022. Sam previously worked only a few hours away, as an investigative reporter for 7News in Boston, MA.

Gray DC Bureau

Peter Zampa
Peter Zampa
Multimedia Journalist

Peter Zampa joined the Gray Television Washington News Bureau in June 2015 as a multimedia journalist.

Timothy Knapp
Timothy Knapp
Supervisor of Videography

Timothy Knapp joined the Gray Television Washington News Bureau in September 2018 as Studio Manager and Photojournalist. He now serves as Supervisor of Videography.

Tyler S. Smith
Tyler S. Smith
Photojournalist/Editor

Tyler Smith joined the Gray Television Washington News Bureau in July 2019 as a photojournalist/editor.

Jamie Bittner
Jamie Bittner
Multimedia Journalist

Jamie Bittner joined the Gray Television Washington News Bureau in December 2021.

Priscilla Huff
Priscilla Huff
Managing Editor

Priscilla Huff is the Managing Editor for the Washington, DC Bureau. She joined the Gray Television in January 2022 as a producer.

Brendan Cullerton
Brendan Cullerton
Multimedia Journalist

Brendan Cullerton joined the Gray Television Washington News Bureau in March 2022 as a multimedia journalist after spending four years covering state, local, and federal politics for the CBS affiliate in Milwaukee.

Molly Martinez
Molly Martinez
Multimedia Journalist

Molly Martinez rejoined Gray Television in March 2022 as a multimedia journalist in the Washington News Bureau. She previously covered politics at Gray TV's KFYR-TV in Bismarck, N.D.

Josh Rultenberg
Josh Rultenberg
Multimedia Journalist

Josh Rultenberg joined the Gray Television Washington News Bureau in July 2022 as a multimedia journalist.

Jon Decker
Jon Decker
White House Correspondent and Senior National Editor

Jon Decker is the White House Correspondent and Senior National Editor for Gray Television and has been a member of the White House Press Corps since 1995.

Annie Andersen

Annie has worked at various news outlets in Washington, D.C., including covering the 2020 and 2022 election cycles for C-SPAN. Before that she worked at local stations in Louisiana and Virginia.

Stetson Miller
Stetson Miller
Multimedia Journalist

Stetson Miller joined the Gray Television Washington News Bureau in February 2023 as a multimedia journalist after working at WTOP, WJZ in Baltimore and WCBD in Charleston, SC.