“It’s my goal to bring people information that impacts their lives.  I love the urgency and immediacy of TV news, and  I love reporting the big story,” says Bill Lunn.

Previous experience
Having lived for years in both Duluth and Winona, Bill is no stranger to Minnesota.  He began his broadcasting career as a reporter then anchor for a Duluth television station before trading the frozen tundra for Memphis where he was most recently a morning news anchor at WMC-TV.

Over the years Bill has covered the big stories on a national level.  He field anchored the 2008 coverage of the anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.  He covered the 1998 impeachment of President Bill Clinton live from Washington, D.C.   And he was here in Minnesota; live from the crash site of Northwest Airlink flight 5719 in Hibbing in 1993 where18 people were tragically killed.

Awards
Bill received a Minnesota Associated Press award for a story about wild rice harvesting with Ojibwe Indians.  He was also honored in the fall of 2008 when he was asked to emcee the National Civil Rights Museums’s Freedom Awards.

Education
Bill attended St. Mary's University in Winona and received a  B.A. in English Literature.  He received his Masters in Journalism from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

Personal Interests
Bill has been involved with the March of Dimes for more than a decade and has served on their board of directors and as a media spokesperson.  He has read to thousands of children in the Memphis area schools and has coached youth baseball for the last six years.

Bill loves spending time with his wife Sheri and three sons: John, William and Daniel.   He says, “I feel like I'm coming back home to Minnesota.  I love Minnesota for its natural beauty.”   Bill and his busy family enjoy any kind of outdoor activity together especially fishing.  He affirms that “one of the Lunns will break the Minnesota walleye record of 17 pounds 8 ounces in the next 5 years.”  And says, “This is the only state where I've been face to face with moose, bear and even wolves.  Every time that's happened to me I think to myself ~ Only in Minnesota!”