General Manager
mgodard@kalb.com
Michele has worked at KALB-TV since 1993 beginning her career there as the weather anchor for News Channel 5's morning show "Jambalaya". Her experience in the news department includes time spent in the position of General Assignments Reporter, Education Reporter, Evening News Anchor, and Executive Producer. From 2002 until 2009, Michele was the News Director. Under her leadership, the KALB-TV News Channel 5 newsroom won numerous state awards, including Associated Press recognition of the station's coverage of major disasters like Hurricane's Katrina, Rita and Gustav.
In the sales department, Michele spent two years as an Account Executive giving her the experience of both news and sales. In September of 2009, Michele was named General Manager of KALB-TV, which operates the NBC and CBS affiliates in the central Louisiana area.
Born in San Francisco, she spent much of her early years growing up in Brentwood, Los Angeles and attended college in Boston, Massachusetts at Emerson College.
