America’s Morning News 6-8am

America’s Morning News is a new nationally syndicated, morning-drive radio news show in partnership with The Washington Times which proves to be an innovative new format aimed at showcasing 10 of America’s top investigative reporters, where two multiple award-winning anchors are broadcasting 21feet away from 175 working journalists in the Times’ newsroom inside the nation’s capital. America’s Morning News features Long-Time ABC, S.F. Morning Drive Anchor Melanie Morgan who is Co-Anchoring with Award-Winning Columnist John McCaslin.

Melanie Morgan

Veteran broadcast journalist, Melanie Morgan has spent 33 years working for ABC TV and Radio, assigned to cover international hotspots, for which she has earned a reputation as a fearless journalist who faced many challenges, often in dangerous war time situations.

Morgan was first awarded with national recognition in 1979 with an “Omni Excellence in Broadcasting” award, as a young reporter who wrote, produced and voiced a special hour documentary “Brown V. Topeka Board of Education” for KFIX Radio in her hometown of Kansas City, Missouri.

After moving to San Francisco, the 24 year old radio anchorwoman was sent to Beirut in 1983 after Islamic terrorists drove a truck bomb through the gates of the American compound sheltering over 250 young Marines. Morgan won the Associated Press award for Best Live Reporting from Beirut, The Peninsula Press Club award and others for the live broadcasts and exclusive story of PLO leader Yasser Arafat’s ejection from Lebanon by the country’s leading Mullah’s.

For nearly 15 years, Morgan hosted a daily four-hour morning radio program on ABC’s flagship station KSFO, San Francisco, the #1 AM radio market in the country (4th largest rated market overall). In 1985, Morgan won awards for her coverage of the Mexico City earthquake that registered 8.1, killing 10,000 people. Morgan was the very first reporter to broadcast live the devastation and destruction in Mexico after convincing a Saudi Prince to take her up in his private jet for a ship-to-shore hook-up with San Francisco tower, which was re-broadcast on ABC Radio Network, and played live on ABC Television network.

John McCaslin

John McCaslin has appeared on virtually every major television and radio network — from MSNBC’s “Hardball” with Chris Matthews to National Public Radio’s “Weekend Edition Sunday,” even VH1 — offering insights in the nation’s capital and its ever-changing cast of political characters. He’s been a regular substitute host for Rush Limbaugh on the EIB Network, Sam Donaldson on ABC Radio, Mary Matalin on CBS Radio, and Michael Reagan and Oliver North over Radio America. He has also anchored a weekly news segment on ABC-7 News in Washington.

His news and travel assignments have taken him around the world, filing stories from Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Africa, South and Central America. For two years he covered and wrote about the war in Nicaragua. His life and work have been featured in numerous publications, including Reader’s Digest, the Washington Post, Editor & Publisher, Washingtonian, Capitol File, Washington Life, and numerous travel magazines.

A former Metropolitan Editor for the Washington Times, McCaslin directed 45 editors/reporters in their daily coverage of the nation’s capital. At the request of the Associated Press, he developed and launched a paid partnership between the nation’s leading news wire agency and his reporters.

Previously, as assistant National Editor, he co-managed daily coverage of the White House, Congress and Pentagon. Best known for penning the “Inside the Beltway” column for The Washington Times (and previously the Los Angeles Times Syndicate and Tribune Media Services), McCaslin’s topics and readers are one and the same, and include U.S. presidents and their Cabinets, senators and congressmen, federal bureaucrats and ordinary Americans.

Every day he treats readers to a unique cornucopia of anecdotes culled from Washington’s countless corridors of power. Broadcaster, author, public speaker and columnist are among the hats worn by John McCaslin during his 25 years of covering the White House and Congress and all federal agencies in between.