Lauren Davis is a WVLT Volunteer TV News anchor and reporter.
WVLT's Lauren Davis is an award winning journalist and a war correspondent.
Lauren has been at VolunteerTV for 4 years. She is the primetime 6, 7, and 11pm news anchor. Lauren reports daily on stories in Knoxville and surrounding counties. She has covered the school shootings at Central High School and Inskip Elementary, the church shooting at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church and the 2008 Kingston Coal Ash spill.
Before joining the VolunteerTV news team, Lauren Davis spent four years at our sister station CBS affiliate WTVY-TV News 4 in Dothan, Alabama. She anchored the morning show at WTVY and filed daily reports. Lauren was the military reporter for Fort Rucker, the home of army aviation. Lauren went to Iraq in October 2006 with the Army Corps of Engineer as an embedded journalist for 2 weeks reporting on the rebuilding and reconstruction projects in the Gulf Region South. At WTVY, Lauren also covered President George W. Bush's visit, the Enterprise tornado that killed 8 students, and Hurricanes Ivan and Katrina. Her hurricane coverage has been featured on The Weather Channel.
Lauren's broadcasting career began at the CBS affiliate in Jefferson City, Missouri at KRCG-TV. She produced the primetime evening newscasts and reported.
Lauren received her bachelor's degree in Broadcast News from the Henry Grady School of Journalism at the University of Georgia in 2001. She graduated with honors. Lauren was a foreign exchange student in France.
Lauren has been named the Associated Press Best News Anchor, Best Specialized Reporter for her Iraq reporting, and Best Series Reporter.
Lauren is a member of Kappa Delta Sorority. She is currently a board member for "Friends of Literacy". She also volunteers with Meals on Wheels "Mobile Meals" program for seniors, Make-A-Wish Foundation of East Tennessee and the United Way.
In her spare time, Lauren enjoys running, hiking the Great Smoky Mountains and spending time with her new husband, Judson, and their chihuahua Sandy. Lauren also loves visiting with her family in the North Georgia Mountains and playing with her niece Ellie.
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