John Holt and Dhomonique Ricks
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — FOX 4 announces Dhomonique Ricks will join the news team as evening anchor.
Dhomonique holds a Bachelor’s degree in Radio-TV Journalism from the University of Missouri, Columbia. She comes to FOX 4 from WEWS in Cleveland, Ohio where she was an anchor and multi-media journalist since 2014.
FOX 4 President and General Manager, Cheryl McDonald, said “Dhomonique is a perfect addition to our FOX 4 family. We are extremely pleased to find someone with such caliber and experience. We are looking forward to her involvement on-air and within the Kansas City community.”
Ricks has received a Regional Murrow Award for Best Breaking News Coverage, a Regional Mark of Excellence Award for Best News Reporting, Feature, and Breaking News. While in college, she was selected for an Emma Bowen Foundation Fellowship at KMSP in Minneapolis.
Prior to her time in Cleveland, she was an anchor and reporter at WSET in Lynchburg, Virginia and at KOMU in Columbia, Missouri. She also hosted an entertainment newsmagazine show for KARE in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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