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CBS4 reporter Andrea Lopez has a reputation for working hard and she has extensive experience shooting and editing her own news stories.
Many of her reports have won awards from Colorado Broadcasters Association, Colorado Associated Press and Colorado Ski Country USA. Andrea received the 2002 Gordon Yoder Scholarship to attend the National Press Photographers Association TV NewsVideo Workshop. She won an Emmy at the 2003 Heartland Regional Annual Emmy Awards for "The Terry Barton Interview," an exclusive interview with the woman who lit Colorado's largest wildfire.
Prior to joining the CBS4 team, Andrea served as a weekend producer, back-up anchor, and reporter at KOAA-TV in Colorado Springs. She got her start in TV journalism as the News Bureau Chief at KREY-TV, a CBS affiliate in Montrose, Colorado, where she shot, edited and anchored a four-minute nightly newscast.
Andrea holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mass Communications from the University of California at Berkeley and a graduate degree in journalism from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada.
Since graduating from Berkeley in 1993, she has worked as a freelance print journalist publishing articles in magazines such as Bird Watcher's Digest, American Careers, Backhome Magazine and the 2003 Almanac for Farmers & City Folk. Her first book, "When Raccoons Fall Through Your Ceiling", was published in November of 2002 by the University of North Texas Press. It focuses on how people can co-exist with wildlife and solve wildlife-related problems.
Before becoming a journalist, Andrea served as a refuge manager at Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation, Inc. in San Antonio, Texas.
Andrea rides horses for a hobby. She also holds a black belt in Taekwondo, was a member of the Berkeley Taekwondo team for four years, and once trained under former Olympic team coach Sang Lee in Colorado Springs.
During her time in Montrose, Andrea also entered the Montrose Fire Protection District's fire academy and became a state-certified volunteer firefighter.
Some of the best advice she has encountered over the course of her career came from Casey Kasem during the Jerry Lewis MDA telethon in August of 2000. He said: "Do all that you can do, do as much as you can, it will only give you more options." CBS4 reporter Andrea Lopez has taken that advice to heart!
