Sally Wiggin

PITTSBURGH -- Sally Wiggin can be seen every weekday anchoring Channel 4 Action News at noon. She joined WTAE in 1980, and in January 1981 became co-anchor of the weekend news, a position she held until being named anchor on the weeknight newscasts in November 1986.

In 1987, Wiggin won the United Press International Best Special Award for her role as reporter/narrator of The Budd Dwyer Special. The same year, she received recognition as anchor/reporter on the WTAE 4 Newscast, which was named as the "Best in the Northeast Region." For her investigative reporting series on radon gas, she was nominated for a 1987 Golden Quill Award. Wiggin also won second place in the 1990 AP awards for Enterprise/Individual Reporting for her series on Critical Care Units. For that series, she also received special recognition from the American Association of Critical Care Nurses. Wiggin won a regional Emmy and a National Headliners award for WTAE-TV’s Sept. 11 coverage. She has also been nominated for several regional Emmys, including her feature "Bowling with Bettis," and the WTAE special on Steelers owner Dan Rooney's entry into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. She has won several state AP Awards for “Steelers Primetime” and an AP Award for the Ivan Flood special.

Before moving to Pittsburgh, Wiggin was weekend anchor at WBRC-TV in Birmingham, Ala., where she was cited with the 1980 Alabama Associated Press Award for her series, "Is Your Marriage on the Rocks?" While working at Birmingham's WSGN Radio in 1977, she was a member of a four person investigative team that won the RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Award, National Headliners Award, and National Sigma Delta Chi Award for a report on insurance fraud. In 1978, she won the state Sigma Delta Chi Award for Best Radio Feature Series.

A native of Kalamazoo, Mich., Wiggin graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Alabama and holds a Master's degree in Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan. Later, she studied Japanese at the University of Pittsburgh, and she continues to be involved with the Asian community here.

Wiggin serves as a board member of a number of organizations, including The Caring Foundation, the Pittsburgh Zoo and PPG Aquarium, the Women's Center and Shelter, the Humane Society and the American Heart Association. She previously served as a board member for the Ronald McDonald House, the Alzheimer's Association of Greater Pittsburgh, City Theater and the Pittsburgh Dance Council.

She was a spokesperson for the campaign Working Hearts. She was selected as the 1989 Hadassah Woman of the Year, the Vectors 1990 Communications Person of the Year, and Carlow College Woman of Spirit. She received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Pittsburgh Radio and TV Foundation and the Humanitarian of the Year award for the United Cerebral Palsy in 2003. For 15 years she was the honorary chairperson of the American Cancer Society Daffodil Days Campaign.

An active sportswoman, Wiggin is a horseback riding, skiing and golf enthusiast, when time permits. She considers meeting new people and working with school children the favorite aspects of her job.