Sunny Layne

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Sunny Layne
KWWL Anchor/Reporter

Sunny joined the KWWL team as morning and noon co-anchor in August 2007.

Since joining Channel 7, She has covered the historic EF-5 tornado and floods of 2008. She also highlights extraordinary eastern Iowans each week in her series "Someone You Should Know."

Sunny has received an Emmy nomination, a First Place Northwest Broadcast News Association Award, as well as others, including an Iowa Broadcast News Association Award.

She comes from WOI-TV in Des Moines where she covered several presidential candidates from Barrack Obama to Rudy Giuliani. She also conducted exclusive Spanish-speaking interviews during the Marshalltown SWIFT Raids.

Before working in the Hawkeye State, Sunny interned at The Today Show in New York where she assisted Katie Couric in an interview with former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. She also produced a concert shoot for Aerosmith's Joe Perry. Before hitting the big apple, Sunny interned at Televisa in Mexico City.

In 2008, she completed Alaska's "Mayor's Midnight Sun Marathon" while raising money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. She also loves animals and has volunteered with the Humane Society.

Sunny started her news career at Brigham Young University where she majored in Broadcast Journalism and minored in Spanish.

(Sunny Layne is her real given name. She was named after a Nat King Cole song.)

A Minnesota native, Sunny says she's happy to be back in the Midwest.

When she's not waking up early to deliver the news, Sunny spends time with her husband Jason and their two cats.

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