Featuring WPEC Reporters

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This blog, unlike the other one, does not do hatchet jobs on people to win a political point nor does it take comments out of context and write personal repulsive attacks. We have featured the reporters that have taken disgusting hits to bring them down and ruin their integrity. It started by the bully the day after the Lake Worth abandoned vehicle video by WPEC of February 27. As this is a big news organization, I wonder if they can sue or do they just chalk it up to the cost of the free press and let you, their audience, decide. More than likely, they take the high road and don't let insignificant, inconsequential anonymous people get in their way of reporting fact. From the WPEC web site:

Lauren Hills - Reporter Lauren Hills joined the CBS12 News team in November 2011 as a general assignment reporter. Lauren was born in Houston, Texas, but moved to West Palm Beach when she was about 5 and grew up here. She attended Cardinal Newman High School and Wellington High School, where she graduated in 2000. Lauren earned a college basketball scholarship to West Liberty State College outside of Wheeling, W.Va., and played there for three years before transferring to the University of Florida to pursue broadcast journalism, a field she's wanted to be in since she was about 12. She majored in telecommunications and reported for UF's campus TV and radio stations, graduated in 2005, and landed her first job in TV in a small market in Morgantown, W.Va. She reported for WBOY 12 News for two years before heading south and reporting for NBC 17 News in Raleigh, N.C., for three years. Lauren is very excited to now be reporting for CBS12 News in the area where she grew up and loves! Lauren is a big fan of the Gators and Mountaineers, and tries to catch a game whenever she can. When she's not reporting, you can find her running (two half-marathons under her belt!), reading, and traveling (at least, she's trying to do more of that!).

Michael Buczyner - Reporter Michael Buczyner is an Emmy Award winning journalist who joined the CBS12 News team in July of 2013. Michael was raised in Weston, Fla., and is thrilled to call South Florida home once again. Michael is a proud graduate of The University of Missouri School of Journalsim (Go Tigers!) Prior to joining the CBS12 News family, Michael worked in Miami, Fla.; Augusta, Ga.; Baltimore, Md.; and Atlanta, Ga. Michael's background is in investigative journalism. He has received several Associated Press Awards for his in-depth investigative stories. The National Capital Bay Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences awarded Michael in 2009 with an Emmy Award for his reporting on the "Making of a Marine." When he's not at work, Michael enjoys spending time with his wife and daughter. Michael is a foodie and is constantly searching for the best bbq and delis in South Florida. When he's not on the hunt for great food, he enjoys playing golf and relaxing at the beach.

Peter Schaller - Reporter Peter Schaller has been a reporter for CBS 12 News since May 2009. In January 2010, he was on scene as local police broke big news. They had just captured Paul Michael Merhige, the man accused of killing four family members in Jupiter on Thanksgiving Day in 2009. Peter believes that this job carries the responsibility to inform, educate and connect with people living in South Florida. Peter was born in New York, where most of his family still lives today. He started his career interning with WBNG-TV, the number one television station in southern New York and northern Pennsylvania. Next, Peter anchored and reported for KREX-TV in Grand Junction, Colo. His investigative reporting on oil and gas wastewater pits, and their effects on local families, helped change Colorado law. The governor invited the people profiled in his exclusive series to the signing of the "buffer zone" law, and now these toxic pits will never go in anyone's backyard. He also reported on wildfires, snowstorms, plane crashes and the 2008 presidential campaign. Peter also covered the fire that destroyed the KREX-TV building in 2008, and he got his hands dirty as the station rebuilt from the ground up. He's happy to now be in sunny Florida, trading mountains for beaches, aspens for palm trees. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Binghamton University. Like any New Yorker, he loves to hear what's on your mind.