Behind the Anchor Desk: Leadership, Ethics, and Real-World Decisions

Calvin Hughes

Local 10 News Anchor

Eight-time Emmy Award-winning newscaster Calvin Hughes anchors WPLG-Local 10’s 4, 5, 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts.

For 19 years, Calvin, who earned his B.S in Journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia, has informed us about the major stories in South Florida. The breaking news has included around-the-clock coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2021 Surfside condo collapse, the worst high school shooting in American history in Parkland, FL., the devastation of Hurricane Irma in 2017, his world exclusive interview with First Lady of Haiti weeks after being shot during the assassination of her husband, President Jovenel Moise. Unprecedentedly, Calvin has interviewed the past three democratically-elected Presidents of Haiti for several special news reports. His most recent trip in August 2024, and perhaps most dangerous, was for an exclusive sit-down interview with the prime minister in Port-au-Prince, which almost all of the city was controlled by violent gangs.

Calvin has always had a deep love for taking his talents to the location of the action no matter where that might be in the world. He spent days in Havana, Cuba reporting live on the last two popes to visit Cuba including Pope Francis’ historic trip to three cities in Cuba and President Obama’s historic visit. In 2015, he was also the first American journalist to broadcast live from the grounds of the new American Embassy in Havana several hours before the official flag-raising ceremony and opening. In November of the following year, Calvin led members of the Local 10 News team across Cuba, for eleven days, to report on the death of former Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

In 2023, Calvin traveled to Galveston, Texas, the birthplace of Juneteenth with members of his news team to produce a documentary. The half-hour special won an Emmy and is syndicated on nearly 200 TV stations across the nation on June 19th in addition to airing on the Armed Forces TV network on all military bases and US Embassies around the world.

Twice, The Miami New Times voted Calvin Miami’s Best TV News Anchor in 2022 and 2011, noting that he reported the story of Haiti’s earthquake “gracefully and professionally.”

Prior to South Florida, Calvin worked as an anchor/reporter in Philadelphia, Atlanta, and Dallas. He has also carried his pen and reporter's notepad to Lexington, Ky., Evansville, Indiana, and Columbia, Mo., where he launched his career on the radio at the age of 19.

Calvin has a deep passion for giving back to the South Florida community as he has been a YMCA member for decades including having served as President and Vice-President of the YMCA Pembroke Pines branch. Currently, he teaches a journalism course at the University of Miami and is a member of several charitable organizations including the 5000 Role Models of Excellence Project Mentor, President of NABJ-South Florida, a “BIG” for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Miami, and is a proud member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. Calvin has hosted the Florida Breast Health Initiative every year that it has taken place.

Above all, Calvin says he is a father first, and has been thrilled to make South Florida his home along with his two sons, Solomon and Roman, and precious daughter, Sakala Danielle.

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