Dana Fowle Biography
Dana Fowle is an award winning journalist currently working as an investigative reporter for FOX 5 Atlanta. She joined the station as a general assignment reporter in 1995, and in August 1999 she joined the FOX 5 I-Team as the Consumer Reporter.
Dana Fowle Career
Shortly after Fowle joined the I-Team, her investigation into Georgia’s child-welfare system helped change state child-care laws. Following exposing how 5-year-old Terrell Peterson was tortured and starved while in foster care, she was recognized with the prestigious Green Eyeshade award by the Society of Professional Journalists. Finally, this investigation helped lead to the reorganization of top management at the Department of Family and Children’s Services
Prior to joining the FOX 5 news team, Fowle was a reporter for WMAQ-TV in Chicago and an anchor and reporter for CLTV, also in Chicago. In addition, she was also a reporter and weekend anchor in Lynchburg, Virginia. Fowle started her career in radio in Richmond, Virginia.
She is an Emmy Award-winning journalist who has covered a wide range of stories. Fowle was reporting live from Ground Zero, soon after the September 11th terrorist attacks. Furthermore, during the U.S. bombing of Yugoslavia, she was filing reports from a military refueling plane over the Adriatic Sea. In addition, Fowle has put a stop to shady businesses and con men who have swindled thousands of dollars from innocent people as a consumer investigator with the FOX 5 I-Team, She is a recipient of the Associated Press Award for Best Investigative Reporting after exposing a local modeling agent who took the trust and money from would-be models and actors.
Moreover, Fowle has worked with refugees teaching them how to assimilate into US culture and has received the volunteer of the year award from Catholic Social Services. In 2008, she received the Atlanta Press Club’s TV Journalist of the Year award.
Fowle graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Mass Communication and Media Studies from Virginia Commonwealth University. In her free time, she enjoys traveling and has hiked the Inca trail in Peru and traveled much of Western and Eastern Europe. Fowle and her husband live in Atlanta.
Dana Fowle Achievements
Fowle has accomplished a lot in her career
Residential elevators Cause catastrophic injuries to Children
Residential elevators in homes and rental properties were installed in a way that maimed and killed children. Furthermore, State codes were modified to prevent future tragic accidents federal government issued a recall on some in-home systems. In addition, the Consumer Product Safety Commission is investigating the safety of residential elevators.
Dirty Hotel Glasses
Hidden camera investigation into high-end hotels that washed room glasses with dirty rags and gloves used to clean toilets creating health risks. Many hotels changed room drinking glasses to plastic-covered cups to insure state sanitation requirements were being met; to date, generated record-high traffic to station website.
2001 Terrorist Attacks
Reported live from Ground Zero the day after the attack; only southeastern reporter, through perseverance, was able to get inside the cordoned-off strike.
Tragedy of Terrell
Series helped to convince legislators to change state welfare laws after discovering a child starved and beaten while in foster care. The story was picked up by “60 Minutes” and “Time” magazine.
1996 Democratic and Republican National Conventions– interviewed key players at conventions.
1996 Summer Olympics Covered both features and breaking developments in the Olympic Park bombing. She was a key player in the subsequent national manhunt for bomber.
NATO Bombing of Yugoslavia -Selected by the US Navy to embed with a crew on an Italian base. Fowles flew on mid-air, refueling mission over the Adriatic Sea during NATO’s first use of military force without UN Security Council approval.
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Dana Fowle Age
She was born on 26 October 1965 according to her Facebook page, Fowles turned 52 in October 2017 this makes her 59 as of 2024.
Dana Fowle Height
There is no information about her height. However, will update once the information is available.
Dana Fowle Education
Fowle graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Mass Communication and Media Studies from Virginia Commonwealth University.
Dana Fowle Family
There is no information about her parents or siblings. However, will update once the information is available.
Dana Fowle Husband
Fowle and her husband David live in Atlanta. He shares a birthday with their dog Max on 23 October.
Dana Fowle Children
She is a mother to a daughter Leo Rose who was born with a hemangioma. It’s a vascular tumor that traveled through her brain and down her airway.
When Leo Rose was just three weeks old, doctors told Dana and her husband David that Leo Rose’s hemangioma would possibly cause her to be blind and suffer serious brain damage. Fortunately, it stopped short of that. But, as hemangiomas do, it stopped growing then reversed itself, and when it did it took some of her ear bones with it.
In kindergarten, she got fitted for a hearing aid. And, Leo Rose had a choice: She could get laser surgery to reduce the appearance of the hemangioma, which covers one ear and wraps around her neck. She said no.
“This is who I am, mommy,” Dana recalls.
At seven years she walked to class bravely and confidently not expecting anyone to make fun of her but was surprised her classmates supported her. Her teacher put her in pig tails and the girls in her class wore pigtails and boys bowties the rest of the year on Tuesdays. Leo Rose ultimately showed she had come to terms with her situation.
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