Anchors
Sally Thorner
Sally Thorner anchors Eyewitness News at Five--a news program named "Baltimore's Best 5:00 p.m. TV News Show" a few years back by Baltimore Magazine. She also anchors the 4:00 p.m. newscast. This quick-witted broadcast journalist also has been the focus of cover stories in a range of publications, from Baltimore Magazine to The Jewish Times. Along with anchor Kai Jackson, Sally provides the early evening news for a wide range of Marylanders tuned in for the fast paced newscasts that demonstrate the characteristic energy and accuracy of Eyewitness News.
When Sally came to Baltimore, she worked for competing news station, WMAR, but elected in 1993 to join Maryland's News Station, WJZ.
Thanks to Sally's multi-dimensional talents, Eyewitness News has won a number of Emmy Awards.
Sally is as active off the air as she is on camera. Deeply committed to such personal causes as Parkinson's disease and breast cancer–which her late mother suffered from--she also honors her parents by putting into practice the values they taught--the importance of giving back to the community.
A native of Great Neck, New York where her father ran the national chapter of the March of Dimes and her mother taught school, Sally now serves on the board of The House of Ruth, the Women's Advisory Council to Johns Hopkins Hospital, the board of visitors of the department of speech and mass communications at Towson University and the board of governors of the Women's Division of Israel Bonds of Maryland.
She is a member of the International Women's Forum, an organization committed to the empowerment of women, and also actively works to help such other nonprofit organizations as Goodwill Industries, the March of Dimes, the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation and the fight against such diseases as Parkinson's and AIDS.
Sally graduated from Smith College in Northhampton, Massachusetts where her academic record earned her a place in the psychology honors society. She lives with her husband and son in Baltimore County.