During football season, Lane, who anchored live from Jacksonville, Florida during Super Bowl XXXIX, can also be seen in Home Field Advantage, a news series that profiles Eagles players at home.
Lane joined CBS 3 in September, 2003, where, in addition to anchoring, her early experience as a street reporter was quickly put to use with her live coverage of the Atlantic City casino garage collapse in addition to much of Philadelphia?s wild weather that season including tornados, floods and hurricanes.
In 2004, she was the first reporter to speak one-on-one with Luzaida Cuevas, the mother of Delimar Vera, the six-year-old girl who was snatched from her crib days after her birth and raised by her kidnapper. Later, during the 2004 Presidential Election, Lane obtained exclusive interviews with First Lady Laura Bush, Lynne Cheney, and Teresa Heinz Kerry.
Before coming to Philadelphia, she had been weekend anchor and reporter for WTVJ-TV, the NBC station in Miami, Florida. She joined that station in September, 2001, quickly distinguishing herself with her coverage of the impact of September 11th on the region, from the hunt for suspected terrorists to her in-depth reports on the backlash felt by Florida?s Muslim community. Her major assignments there also included Hurricanes Michelle and Isadore and the investigation into the anthrax attack on the National Enquirer tabloid publisher American Media. Previously, Lane was a reporter for WSVN, the FOX affiliate in Miami where she covered the Elian Gonzalez story.
Lane was also an anchor/reporter for cable news station News 12 in New York, covering the shooting death of Amadou Diallo by New York City police among other stories. As a result of one of her investigative pieces there, she is credited with helping to free a wrongly accused man from prison.
She began her career as a Washington-based reporter for KSNT-TV in Topeka, Kansas while completing her Master?s Degree in Broadcast Journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Lane, who is fluent in Spanish, received her undergraduate degree from the State University of New York at Albany in Spanish Language and Literature, graduating with honors.
Active in the community, Lane volunteers her time locally to support the Susan G. Komen Race For The Cure held each Mother?s Day in Philadelphia and has also been instrumental in bringing the message of early detection of breast cancer to the Spanish-speaking community as moderator of the first Latinas For The Cure workshop in 2004.
Lane, who is of Puerto Rican heritage, is a member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. A native of Long Island, New York, she now resides in Philadelphia.
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