KATU/Portland: Wesleigh Ogle Celebrates 10 Year In The Great Northwest

Wesleigh Ogle KATU: “🎉10 YEARS: I’ve now lived and worked in Oregon for a whole decade! I still think that moving here was the best decision I ever made. My soul feels at home here.”

Wesleigh caught the news bug early while she anchored and reported for her high school’s news broadcast. Wesleigh interned with WFAA Channel 8 in Dallas. She worked as a production assistant for ESPN and ESPNU and at an online magazine in London. While there, she loved traveling to Ireland, Scotland and Amsterdam.

She comes to Portland from KVAL in Eugene, where she was the morning anchor and noon producer/editor/anchor. She joined the KVAL team in 2013, but she started her career at KCBY in Coos Bay in 2012. She graduated with a B.A. in Journalism and a B.A. in Religious Studies from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX.