Meet The Team

Weather Team

Lisa Spencer
Lisa Spencer
Chief Meteorologist

Lisa Spencer is the chief meteorologist at WSMV4 Nashville.

Dan Thomas
Dan Thomas
Meteorologist

Dan Thomas has been a weather fanatic for as long as he can remember. As a small child, in his hometown of North Andover, MA, he loved to stare out the window, watching New England's powerful ocean storms.

Stefano DiPietro
Stefano DiPietro

Stefano DiPietro is the meteorologist on News4 Today weekdays from 4-7 a.m.

Melanie Layden
Melanie Layden
Meteorologist

Melanie Layden is the weekend morning meteorologist on WSMV4 Today Saturday and Sunday mornings. Melanie joined WSMV4 in 2014 and was the morning traffic anchor for more than 4 years before moving to the weather team in 2019.

Cruz Medina
Cruz Medina
Meteorologist

Cruz is a North Carolina native and graduated from North Carolina State University, in North Carolina's capital city, with degrees in Meteorology and Spanish. He joined WSMV4 in September 2022.

Sports Team

Chris Harris
Chris Harris
Sports Anchor

Chris is the weekday sports anchor for WSMV4, having joined the team in 2011.

Garrett Short
Garrett Short
Sports Reporter

Garrett Short joined WSMV as a sports reporter in September of 2023.

Lauren Walsh
Lauren Walsh
Sports Anchor/Reporter

Lauren Walsh is a sports anchor and reporter for WSMV4.

Investigative Team

Jeremy Finley
Jeremy Finley
Chief Investigative Reporter

Jeremy Finley is the chief investigative reporter for WSMV4 Investigates. He specializes in investigations into political corruption, criminal activity and waste of taxpayer money.

Courtney Allen
Courtney Allen
Reporter

Courtney Allen is an Emmy-nominated reporter who joined the WSMV 4 team in October 2021.

Stacey Cameron
Stacey Cameron
Investigative Reporter

Stacey Cameron is a Murrow, Emmy, Associated Press, and Sigma Delta Chi award-winning investigative reporter. Before entering the world of broadcast journalism, Stacey was a constitutional and intellectual property attorney. He is also married and the father of three beautiful girls.

Gray DC Bureau

Jon Decker
Jon Decker
White House Correspondent and Senior National Editor

Jon Decker is the White House Correspondent and Senior National Editor for Gray Television and has been a member of the White House Press Corps since 1995.

Peter Zampa
Peter Zampa
Senior National Correspondent, based in NYC

Peter Zampa joined the Gray Television Washington News Bureau in June 2015 as a multimedia journalist.

Brendan Cullerton
Brendan Cullerton
Multimedia Journalist

Brendan Cullerton joined the Gray Television Washington News Bureau in March 2022 as a multimedia journalist after spending four years covering state, local, and federal politics for the CBS affiliate in Milwaukee.

Rhyan Henson
Rhyan Henson
Anchor and Multimedia Journalist

I started working at Gray TV’s Washington D.C. bureau in May of 2023. I found my calling for news while attending Butler University during the Ferguson Riots after the killing of Michael Brown, an unarmed teenager. During the chaotic times is when I realized how facts and storytelling can really impact a community.

Molly Martinez
Molly Martinez
Multimedia Journalist

Molly Martinez rejoined Gray Television in March 2022 as a multimedia journalist in the Washington News Bureau. She previously covered politics at Gray TV's KFYR-TV in Bismarck, N.D.

Ashonti Ford
Ashonti Ford
Multimedia Journalist

Ashonti Ford joined Gray Television in August of 2023. Ford is a well-traveled watchdog journalist who has worked for newsrooms around the nation, including; Tampa, Kansas City, Decatur, Wichita and Salisbury.

Stetson Miller
Stetson Miller
Multimedia Journalist

Stetson Miller joined the Gray Television Washington News Bureau in February 2023 as a multimedia journalist after working at WTOP, WJZ in Baltimore and WCBD in Charleston, SC.

Josh Rultenberg
Josh Rultenberg
Multimedia Journalist

Josh Rultenberg joined the Gray Television Washington News Bureau in July 2022 as a multimedia journalist.

Annie Andersen
Annie Andersen
Producer

Annie has worked at various news outlets in Washington, D.C., including covering the 2020 and 2022 election cycles for C-SPAN. Before that she worked at local stations in Louisiana and Virginia.

Joshua Crompton
Joshua Crompton
Producer

Joshua worked at several local stations before moving to Washington, D.C.. There he launched a national morning show, "The National Desk" for Sinclair. He now works as a producer for the Gray Washington News Bureau.

Leah Vredenbregt
Leah Vredenbregt
Producer

Leah Vredenbregt joined the Gray Washington Bureau team in June 2023 as a weekend producer. She is a recent University of Missouri grad who worked for three years in mid-Missouri news, with internships across the country in both local and national news outlets.

Michael Estrabillo
Michael Estrabillo
Video Journalist

Michael is a born and raised Ohioian who got his photojournalism start at his alma mater Ohio University working for PBS in 2007. He has gone on to work for several media outlets both locally and nationally, shooting award winning news and documentary stories, garnering him an Emmy and Edward Murrow award.

Tyler S. Smith
Tyler S. Smith
Photojournalist/Editor

Tyler Smith joined the Gray Television Washington News Bureau in July 2019 as a photojournalist/editor.

Sarah Meklir
Sarah Meklir
Production Assistant

Sarah Meklir joined the Gray Television Washington News Bureau in September 2023 as a production assistant after working as an intern for the DC Bureau in the summer of 2023. She is currently studying journalism at the University of Maryland.