Molly Hughes
Emmy award-winning journalist Molly Hughes joined CBS4 in October of 2001. She is currently the CBS4 News Special Projects Correspondent, continuing to build the "Molly Hughes Reports" franchise which she started in 2007. You'll see her regularly on CBS4 News at 5 and CBS4 News at 10.
Molly is the winner of the 2005 Emmy for Best Anchor and the 2005 Emmy for Best Hard News Series for her reports on the "Troy Wellington Story". She also anchored several Newscasts and Community Affairs projects that contributed to the 2003 Emmy for Overall Station Excellence and Best Live News Coverage for the "Blizzard of the Century." She is proud to have co-anchored the newscast awarded the 2006 Emmy for Best Evening Newscast in a Large Market.
Molly co-anchored the newscast that was honored with the 2004 Edward R. Murrow Award for Outstanding Newscast and in 2003 she anchored the newscasts that won the Edward R. Murrow Awards for Overall Excellence, Best Newscast and Best News Documentary.
Before calling Colorado home, Molly anchored the 5PM, 6PM and 11PM News at WDTN-TV in Dayton, Ohio and was named "Favorite News Anchor" by readers of the Dayton Daily News.
Molly graduated from San Diego State University in 1990. She started her career in the small-market town of Yuma, Arizona where she was the weather anchor. Within six months she jumped more than 150 markets to return to San Diego where she served as an anchor and reporter at KUSI-TV for nearly three years.
Molly lives in the city of Denver, is married and has two sons. When she is not working in television news, she is spending every possible moment with her family. Together they enjoy sports, karaoke, reading, camping in the family RV, traveling, board games, snowboarding, skiing, fishing, riding bikes and just good-old-fashioned family time.
