Stephanie Haney is a national and regional Emmy-winning host, journalist and lawyer who serves as the Digital Anchor and Legal Analyst at WKYC.
She hosts 3News Daily every weekday at 3 pm as part of NBC News Daily, which is broadcast on TV, NBC NewsNOW, Peacock, WKYC+ and on all podcast platforms. She also produces and hosts a trending stories segment called 3News Now every weekday on 3News at 4 pm, and a legal analysis segment called Legally Speaking as well as live interviews throughout the week on 3News at 5 pm.
She comes home to Northeast Ohio by way of the nationally syndicated news magazine show DailyMailTV, which won the award for Outstanding Entertainment News Program at the 46th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards.
Her additional on-camera credits include hosting roles on CBS (Undercover Boss) and The Travel Channel (Sturgis: Biker Madness), a series regular role on E! (The Drama Queen), and guest appearances on OWN, TNT, Spike, NFL Network, Fox Sports, and The History Channel.
In 2022, Stephanie won the National Media Award from the National Council on Problem Gambling for her coverage on a year-long experiment into whether it pays to play the Powerball lottery. Stephanie also created and produced a weekly interview podcast called "3 Things to Know with Stephanie Haney," which was named the #1 podcast at the 2021 All Ohio Excellence in Journalism Awards. The previous iteration of her trending stories segment, "Clicking in Cleveland" won an Emmy for interactive short-form media at the 2022 Central Great Lakes Emmy Awards, and she won an Emmy for her role on "What's New" which was awarded Best Daytime Newscast at the 2021 Lower Great Lakes Regional Emmy Awards.
Following earning her Master of Science in Journalism from the University of Southern California, graduating magna cum laude as an Annenberg Fellow, Stephanie produced for ABC's Good Morning America in the Field and Series department, in addition to working on Diane Sawyer's "American Dream" project.
She's published in The Los Angeles Times, with cover stories featured in print in both Playboy Magazine ("The Campus Consent Crisis" on Title IX and sexual assault on college campuses) and LA Weekly ("The Brave New World Of Embryo Adoption" on the science that allowed a 51-year-old woman to give birth to twins). She has regularly written feature stories for DailyMail.com, POPSUGAR and other outlets.
In 2023, Stephanie joined the board of trustees at Rescue Village, a humane society in Geauga County, Ohio that serves the Cleveland area's eastern communities.
Originally from Canton, Ohio, Stephanie is licensed to practice law in both Ohio and California. She moved to Los Angeles after graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law to pursue a career in the entertainment industry. While in LA, she also studied improvisation at The Upright Citizens Brigade.
Stephanie holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Ohio University, cum laude, where she double-majored in both Political Science and Sociology with a concentration in Criminology. She studied comparative politics abroad in Wales, UK, working as a research assistant for the Welsh National Assembly's Labour Party.