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Nevada Week | Meet the Host

Nevada Week | Host Amber Renee Dixon

Nevada Week | Meet the Host - Amber Renee Dixon

Amber Renee Dixon, a regional Edward R. Murrow and Emmy Award winner, is a veteran journalist with more than a decade of news reporting and anchoring experience. An Arizona native, Amber is bilingual in Spanish and a proud graduate of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. She began her career reporting on border issues in South Africa, then continued on her journalistic path in Corpus Christi and the Rio Grande Valley in Texas. 

In 2012, she moved to Las Vegas to begin working at KSNV, the NBC affiliate. At KSNV, she worked for two years in News as a general assignment reporter, then transitioned into the role of sports reporter and weekend sports anchor, covering all angles of local sports including the NHL, NFL, WNBA, boxing, mixed martial arts, minor league baseball, minor league soccer, NASCAR, college and high school football. 

Amber became the host of Nevada Week on Vegas PBS in February 2022, and in September 2022, she and the Nevada Week team won the Division 1 Public Media Award in Content: News and Public Affairs. 

You can follow Amber on Twitter at @Amber_R_Dixon

Watch Nevada Week

Thursdays at 7:30 p.m.

Contact Nevada Week
nevadaweek@vegaspbs.org