PERSON: Kristine Frazao

Correspondent

Kristine Frazao is an Emmy award-winning journalist, with more than a decade of on-air experience. As the national correspondent for Sinclair Broadcast Group, Kristine reports on the top political stories of the day along with investigative reports on government waste, fraud, and abuse.

Prior to joining the Sinclair news team, Kristine was the White House Correspondent for RT America. She covered the 2010 and 2012 elections both on the road and in Washington, and anchored nightly newscasts on RT for three years as well. Also during her time at RT, she reported extensively on the impact of hydraulic fracturing or fracking in Pennsylvania, as well as the tragic rate of teen suicide on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

Kristine was born and raised in San Diego, Calif., where she also worked for four years as a general assignment reporter, working for the Fox affiliate (XETV) as well as the NBC affiliate (KNSD) where she received an Emmy for coverage of the Wildfires of 2007.

She got her on-air start working in beautiful Savannah, Ga., at WJCL/WTGS, where she worked as the political reporter, covering City Council and County Commission. She also traveled to Gulfport, Miss., to cover the damage and devastation from Hurricane Katrina.

Kristine loves living in the Washington, D.C., area and covering politics. She spends her free time traveling, reading, and going on adventures with her black lab, Chomsky.

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