TAMPA (WFLA) – After nearly 34 years at WFLA-TV, Emmy Award-winning journalist and longtime news anchor Jennifer Leigh will retire from News Channel 8 following her final broadcast on Dec. 23, 2026.
Leigh joined WFLA as an intern in 1993, beginning a career that would take her from the assignment desk to the anchor desk. She became a full-time associate producer that same year and, in 1995, was named the station’s first Polk County bureau reporter. For nearly two decades, she covered the people, places and issues shaping the community where she grew up…