Kris Van Cleave

Kris Van Cleave

Kris Van Cleave is an Emmy and Edward R. Murrow Award winning General Assignment Reporter for ABC7/WJLA-TV and NewsChannel 8.

He's twice received the Emmy for the region's best General Assignment Reporter (2007 & 2010), and was named 2010 and 2011 "Best Reporter" by the Chesapeake Associated Press Broadcasters Association. Since joining ABC7 News in 2006, Kris has covered the Virginia Tech Shootings, the 2010 Healthcare vote, reported from Haiti after the devastating earthquake, and traveled to Afghanistan to cover local troops. Kris also spends time investigating "7 On Your Side," complaints.

He comes to the nation's capital after working as a reporter at XETV/Fox6 News in San Diego and KOAA-TV in Colorado Springs. Prior to that, Kris was the producer of KTLA-TV/Tribune's nationally syndicated "CyberGuy Report" with host Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy. While working with CyberGuy, Kris did occasional freelance reporting for KTLA in Los Angeles and KSWB-TV in San Diego.

Kris has earned ten Emmy Awards, eight prestigious Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards, and was part of ABC7’s team of reporters honored with the 2010 National Edward R. Murrow Award for breaking news coverage of the deadly Metro train collision. His work has also been recognized by the D.C. Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, the San Diego Press Club, the Colorado Associated Press, the University of Southern California, and the William Randolph Hearst Foundation. In 2011 Kris was selected as a RIAS Berlin Komission Fellow.

He was born in Denver, but lived all over the western United States before settling into Pasadena, California. Kris graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Southern California and remains an avid U.S.C Trojan football fan.

You can find him on twitter (@ABC7Kris) and Facebook (facebook.com/krisvancleavenews). Kris always welcomes story ideas.

Contact Kris

Twitter: @ABC7Kris
WJLA
1100 Wilson BLVD, Suite 601 Arlington, VA 22209

Recent Stories

  1. Student maced at Ballou High School

    WJLA, May 17, 2013 - 03:34 pm

    MPD officials say a group of students got into a fight at the 4th Street Southeast campus, during which one student pulled out a can of mace and began spraying.

  2. Silver Spring Metro fire caused by faulty mechanical equipment

    WJLA, May 14, 2013 - 06:25 pm

    A fire that broke out underneath a Red Line Metro train Tuesday afternoon may have been caused by a metal hose that came into contact with power cables, WMATA officials say.

  3. I-95 drivers face distracted driving

    WJLA, May 14, 2013 - 05:17 pm

    AAA and Transurban, the company behind the 95 hot lane construction project, surveyed nearly 1,000 drivers who regularly use 95 and found nearly all reported seeing someone engage in dangerous, distracted behaviors.

  4. Toddler shot in Southeast D.C.

    WJLA, May 9, 2013 - 09:30 pm

    Grainy surveillance video appears to show a man, gun in hand, opening fire near a southeast D.C. apartment complex Thursday evening. The shooting wounded a toddler.

  5. Miriam Singer gets D.C. tickets despite never driving in D.C.

    WJLA, May 8, 2013 - 06:01 pm

    Miriam Singer got three speed camera tickets in just four months from D.C. Police. The problem: Miriam lives in Baltimore and doesn't drive her car into D.C.