Lauren Lowrey
Anchor
Lauren Lowrey is an Emmy Award-winning Anchor/Reporter who joined WSMV4 in December 2018. She anchors WSMV4 at 4:00pm, 5:00pm and 6:00pm.
Lauren has led coverage for some of the most impactful events in Nashville’s recent history, including deadly midstate tornadoes in 2020 and 2023, solo-anchoring 8 hours of coverage of the 2020 Christmas Day bombing, and leading our coverage in the field after the deadly Covenant School shooting in March 2023.
Before joining the WSMV4 team, Lowrey spent more than seven years in Indianapolis as the primary morning anchor for WISH-TV’s 6-hour morning newscast. She reported from the pits every year at the Indianapolis 500, the largest single-day sporting event in the world, and earned multiple awards, including an Emmy for Best Anchor and awards for her reporting on food-related problems in local school districts from the Associated Press and the Society of Professional Journalists.
Before her time in Indianapolis, Lowrey served as a morning anchor at WTOL in Toledo, OH, where she also reported daily on money matters during the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. During her time in the anchor chair, the morning newscast received multiple Emmy awards and an Edward R. Murrow Award for “Best Newscast” for extreme winter weather coverage.
Lauren started her career anchoring and reporting in her hometown of Myrtle Beach, SC, where she twice spent more than 13 hours reporting live on the beach as a hurricane came ashore. Her work on the anchor desk earned her the distinction of being named one of the “Top 5 Most Successful People Under 30” by Coastal Business Life Magazine.
In 2022, Lauren launched the AMPstigator video podcast, ranked in the Top 10% most shared globally by Spotify. Because of her success the Nashville Business Journal named Lauren to the list of Top 40 Under 40 in 2023, noting her excellence in her work and the community. That same year, the American Heart Association of Tennessee named her a Woman of Impact, marking her dedication to fighting heart disease among women after experiencing her own life-threatening heart event in 2018.
Lowrey graduated with honors from Florida State University with a degree in Communication and a minor in Theater. She is also an accomplished singer and has sung the National Anthem at Indiana Pacers regular season and playoff games eight times.
Outside of the newscasts, you can catch Lauren playing at parks with her husband and three young children, hiking trails around Middle Tennessee, or eating at one of Nashville’s great restaurants – always makeup-free.
