Meet the News Team

James Ford joined the Emmy award winning CW11 Morning News in 2007, where he reports live five days a week, covering breaking news and feature stories.

Prior to his position at WPIX, Ford was a reporter for six years at WNYW Channel 5 in New York, where his reporting on September 11th was the subject of the documentary "Dreams Without Sleep," which debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in 2002.

Ford, an Emmy Award-winning reporter, began his television career in 1991 at WTOC-TV in Savannah, GA, where he was a general assignment reporter and fill-in anchor. Two years later he went to WFTV, Channel 9 in Orlando, FL, where he was the station's Space Coast bureau chief. He was responsible for reporting and covering all the news in Brevard County, which is called Florida's Space Coast. While in Orlando, he also field-anchored coverage of forty-one space shuttle launches at the Kennedy Space Center.

In 1997, Ford moved to WRTV Channel 6 in Indianapolis, where he anchored the morning news and was a consumer investigative reporter. He also frequently reported from the station's helicopter and is an accomplished helicopter camera operator.

Ford is proud to have grown up in an Air Force family, having lived in 6 states and Great Britain. Ford and his family currently live in Manhattan.

Ford is a graduate of Yale University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He also studied Arabic at the International Language Institute of Cairo.