Toni Miles joined the Action Ten News Team in August of 2009. She is the morning anchor for Daybreak and also goes out in the field to report everyday.
She was born in the small town of Port Gibson, Mississippi. She attended the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Mississippi where she majored in Radio, TV and Film and worked as the Managing and Executive Editor of the newspaper there where she won various awards, including Best Spot News Story in a southeast regional collegiate journalism competition. She was also named the university's Outstanding Broadcast Journalism Student of the Year in 1999.
She cut her teeth as a reporter at the NBC affiliate in Hattiesburg, Mississippi after working as an intern for then-Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott in Washington, D.C.
Toni worked for a year at the FOX affiliate news station in Gulfport, Mississippi, then served as the Public Relations Director for the Salvation Army in South Mississippi for a year.
She went back to USM where she worked on her Masters degree and taught journalism classes as a graduate assistant.
In 2001, she was hired as a producer at WLOX-TV, the ABC affiliate in Biloxi, Mississippi. She worked her way through the ranks as a producer, videographer, one-man-band, reporter, weekend assignment editor and worked two years as a weekend anchor.
On August, 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina roared slowly across South Mississippi. Toni picked up her camera as she and her coworkers were hunkered down inside the news station, just a block from the beach, and she started filming. The newsroom roof blew off, the sales office caved in, but she and the other employees inside the building were unharmed.
You can still see Toni appear sometimes on the History Channel and National Geographic, where she is featured reporting on the hurricane. She was also featured in a series on hurricane recovery in Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.
She and the other staff members at WLOX were recipients of the prestigious Edward Murrow and Peabody awards for excellence in journalism.
She was hired by KZTV Action 10 in August of 2009 and has enjoyed learning about the Coastal Bend area and its people.
Toni enjoys running, rollerblading, and writing. In fact, she's written a novel she is adapting into a screen play and is working on getting it published and made into a movie.
You can catch Toni, after about three cups of coffee and great direction from her producer Lizzie, from 6 a.m. to 7 a.m. on KZTV 10 Daybreak.
She works with Mission 911, a transitional program for the homeless, in Corpus Christi, along with other charitable organizations.
She is a devoted pet lover, and once had a blind dog named Buster who was Pet of the Week, but now enjoys the company of her loving Boston Terrier Bella, who, of course, calls all the shots.
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