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Get to know Kristin Diaz, WTOP’s new morning drive anchor

Get to know WTOP’s new morning anchor Kristin Diaz in less than 5 minutes
Kristin Diaz has a go-to coffee order. And she’s going to need a lot of it.

The award-winning journalist has made the move from Dallas to D.C. to join WTOP’s anchor team, and as of Monday, April 20, is anchoring morning drive with John Aaron from 5 a.m. to 10 a.m.

That means her workday starts while most of us are snug in our beds.

In this “getting to know you” video, Diaz tells us about her morning rituals (coffee is mandatory), Dallas-D.C. culture differences, her dream job as a kid and what she loves most about her news career.

Broadcasting runs in Kristin Diaz’s family. But the job she dreamed of doing as a kid had nothing to do with the news.

Diaz shared what she likes to do when she’s off the air, what she expects to miss about Dallas, the foods she’s excited to try here, what she dreamed of doing as a kid and her family ties to the news business.

With all the Election Day madness, something funny happened in the WTOP newsroom

Tuesday is Election Day with races all over the country, from the U.S. president to your local county council to the mayor of your city. It's also a day when poll workers take the time out of their daily schedules to count all the ballots fairly and accurately. With all the Election Day chaos going on, something interesting happened inside the WTOP newsroom. No it wasn't a reporter dropping a cup of coffee or an on-air anchor misreading a name. It was WTOP digital writer/editor Tadi Abedje accidently calling his fellow colleague Will Vitka "Will Smith." Vitka then bursted out laughing for about 10 minutes, which led to the other writers laughing.
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