Tara Hitchcock is the anchor/host of the highly rated "Good Morning Arizona" news program that airs each weekday from 5 a.m. to 9 a.m. MST on 3TV. She joined KTVK in April 1996 from Beaumont, Texas, where she was a general assignment reporter, producer and news anchor on the 5, 6 and 10 p.m. news at KBMT-TV, the ABC network station.

Hitchcock received her BA degree in political science and communications in 1991 from Boston College, where she made the Dean's List. She received her master's degree from Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. While an undergraduate and during her years in graduate school, Hitchcock was very active in news reporting as an intern for TV programs such as Meet the Press in Washington, D.C., as well as other television news programs in Boston and New York City. She participated in a number of media workshops, received awards in public speaking competitions, performed volunteer duties and was one of 30 students at Boston College chosen to tour the Soviet Union in 1990.

Hitchcock was one of about 400 in the U.S. chosen to come to Phoenix in 1987 for American Academy of Achievement.

Hitchcock got married on Saturday, Oct. 2, 2004. She met her husband, Kenn Francis, in January 2002 while in Telluride for a show.

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