Popular ‘Good Day L.A.’ anchor Michaela Pereira exits newscast

A woman in a printed dress standing before a red tile wall
Michaela Pereira in 2020, when she joined Fox 11’s morning present “Good Day L.A.”
(Jay L. Clendenin/Los Angeles Occasions)

“Good Day L.A.” anchor Michaela Pereira, one in all native TV’s hottest information personalities, is leaving Fox 11’s morning newscast.

Pereira, who returned to Los Angeles in 2020 to anchor a revamped broadcast after a high-profile stint at CNN and one other at HLN, is predicted to announce to viewers throughout Thursday’s telecast that she is leaving to discover “new alternatives.” Her final day can be Sept. 9.

“I got here to the incredible group at GDLA to assist fulfill a mission,” Pereira wrote in a memo to the newsroom Wednesday. “It was centered in a time when the world was challenged in a approach we couldn’t even start to estimate nor totally perceive. I'm almost 2 a long time into my love affair with Los Angeles, this chance felt like the easiest way I might be of service and contribute to the hassle to get the place all of us name dwelling via such a weird time.

“Now there's a calling once more to discover,” she continued later within the notice. “During the last a number of months there have been some new alternatives which can be calling me once more — issues that align with my private mission and goal. I really feel compelled to create and dig into these new adventures. In fact, I'll share extra with you after I can.” She referred to as her time at Fox 11 “a pleasure and a privilege.”

Pereira first grew to become a neighborhood TV favourite as a co- anchor on “The KTLA Morning Information,” which drew prime scores because of its upbeat tone and chemistry amongst its on-air expertise. She left the newscast after 9 years in 2013 when then-CNN Worldwide President Jeff Zucker recruited her to launch the community’s New York-based morning present “New Day” with Chris Cuomo and Kate Bolduan.

She returned to Los Angeles in 2017 to host her personal present at sister channel HLN. That present led to 2018. She joined Fox 11 two years later.

Appearing Fox 11 information director Pete Wilgoren in an announcement referred to as Pereira’s departure “bittersweet,” calling her “a guiding power for a lot of our in-depth dialog in the course of the pandemic — in search of solutions from the specialists and offering consolation to the viewers throughout unsure instances.”

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