Tracy Townsend is Emmy Award-winning News Anchor and Medical Correspondent at WBNS-TV
(CBS) in Columbus, Ohio. She is a graduate of The Ohio State University.
Tracy reports on health issues affecting families, including breakthroughs and helpful strategies for
families. She is a member of the Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ) and a 2016-2017 Fellow in
the AHCJ Regional Health Journalism Program. In addition, she works with 10TV Productions on
“Toward A Cancer Free World,” which is a weekly segment featuring the world-renowned experts at The
Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research
Institute.
Tracy led 10TV’s coverage of Campaign 2012: Race for the White House. She has scored interviews
with President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and Republican presidential candidate Mitt
Romney. Townsend and her team won several awards for their work, including the prestigious Walter
Cronkite Award for Excellence in Television Political Journalism in 2013 for their voter-education efforts
preceding the 2012 primary and general elections.
Townsend grew up in Cincinnati and graduated from The Ohio State University. Before joining WBNS-
TV, Tracy worked at WBBM-TV in Chicago, KCTV in Kansas City, and WKRC-TV in Cincinnati. She’s an
Emmy-Award-winning news anchor, a 2016-2017 Fellow of the Association of Health Care Journalists,
and a 2017 Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards winner.
Tracy is a member of the Board of Governors for the Ohio Valley Chapter of the National Academy of
Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS). Additionally, she is an active graduate member of Alpha Kappa
Alpha Sorority, Inc. and the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ). She is also active in The
Links, Incorporated, an international, not-for-profit corporation that is one of the nation’s oldest and
largest volunteer women’s service organizations.
Tracy, her husband, Murvin Enders, III, and their son, Ian, are proud to call Central Ohio their
“adopted” hometown.
