Essex Porter is an American journalist who currently works as a reporter at KIRO 7 -TV Eyewitness News, Seattle. He also works as a co-anchor of the KIRO Morning News, anchor of KIRO’s Puget Sound Business Report, and Eastside Bureau Chief.^{[1] [2]}

Essex Porter was born to his parents, Charla and Essex M., in the United States, where he also experienced his childhood. He was raised up along with his sister, Deborah.

Most noteworthy, it is known that his father had newspapers sent from Chicago to Okinawa so that they could always be on top of the news, while his mother always insisted that he “speak up” in Sunday school.

Details about Essex Porter’s date of birth are not known, he likes to keep his personal life private.^[3]

Essex is good at baking cakes and making frosting but not so good at decorating cakes.

Essex Porter attended Radford High School in Honolulu, Hawaii, where he studied and graduated.

Afterward, he joined the University of Nebraska where he likewise studied and graduated.

Also, he enrolled at the William Benton Fellowship for Broadcast Journalists at the University of Chicago.

Essex Porter began his broadcast career at KLMS Radio in Lincoln, Nebraska, then worked as a television reporter at KETV in Omaha, and KATU in Portland, Oregon.^[16]

He was one of the first reporters on the scene of the Mt.

St. Helens volcanic eruption in 1980.^[4][5]

Essex also reported from the scene of the Northridge earthquake in Los Angeles in January 1994.

Moreover, he covers government and politics for KIRO TV.^[7]

He currently works as a co-anchor of the KIRO Morning News, anchor of KIRO’s Puget Sound Business Report, and Eastside Bureau Chief.

He has earned three Emmy nominations for his reporting and anchoring.^[6]

Essex Porter is a happy married man.

He has been married to his gorgeous wife, Cindy, for quite a long time now.

As a result of their marriage, the couple shares a beautiful daughter together whose name is Kathryn.