Dina Bair
Anchor/Reporter
WGN-TV News at Nine
 Dina Bair is an Emmy Award-Winning journalist who currently anchors the "Medical Watch" on the WGN News at Noon and Nine. In addition, she is a fill-in anchor for the Noon and Nine newscasts. Dina joined WGN-TV as a full-time general assignment reporter in September 1994. She anchored the WGN Weekend Morning News from December 1994 to December 1999.
Dina came to WGN-TV from CLTV in Oak Brook where she was an anchor and reporter. Prior to CLTV, she worked at WHOI-TV in Peoria as an anchor, reporter and producer. Dina also worked at WMAQ-TV in Chicago as a field producer.
Dina is the recipient of numerous awards including five Emmy Awards, a Peter Lisagor Award from the Society of Professional Journalists, and multiple Associated Press Awards for both anchoring and reporting. Covering such topics as experimental surgery, stem cells, organ donation, and race and poverty struggles, Dina reports with both professionalism and compassion. In perhaps the most rewarding story of her career, Dina spent a month reporting inside the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Children's Memorial Hospital. Her news series and documentary, "Intensive Caring," detailing the cutting edge medical treatments and life and death decisions won awards for News and Documentary coverage.
Dina is originally from the East Coast. She received her B.S. in Radio-TV-Film from Northwestern University in Evanston. Dina is married with four children and a tri-athlete who enjoys running, boxing, and lifting weights.
She is active in many charities including The National Italian American Foundation, The National Ovarian Cancer Coalition, "Speaking of Women's Health," The American Lung Association, and the Lymphoma and Leukemia Societies.
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