Eight-time Emmy award-winning journalist Rebecca Schleicher is your Middle Tennessee transportation expert! She anchors our 6 a.m. and 9 a.m. newscasts, and serves as NewsChannel 5’s Traffic Anchor and transportation reporter.
She loves to keep viewers up-to-speed on all the major projects, improvements and growing pains as Middle Tennessee expands.
Rebecca joined the NewsChannel 5 team as a reporter in May 2015 and immediately fell in love with Nashville. With the area booming, the station elevated her to the morning Traffic Anchor to help fill a vital role covering all things transportation in January 2017.
In 2020, she was filling in on the news desk when a series of deadly tornadoes hit overnight on March 3, carving 60 miles of scars and devastating several counties.
And on Christmas Day that same year, Rebecca anchored eight hours of continuous news coverage when a bomb blew up 2nd Avenue in downtown Nashville. After winning Emmy Awards for leading those newscasts, the station promoted her to 9 a.m. news anchor when the show launched in 2022. And she began anchoring the 6 a.m. newscast in 2024.
Rebecca arrived in Middle Tennessee after working two years as a reporter and morning co-anchor at FOX 25 in Oklahoma City.
There she spent much of her time chasing tornadoes, driving through hail storms and advocating for members of the community who weren’t getting a fair shake. Rebecca loves holding people in power accountable. When she worked at KCEN in Waco, Texas, her series of reports on a sheriff accused of sexual harassment preceded an election where citizens voted him out of office. Her crowning achievement in Oklahoma City was a series of reports on long-time contaminated water that led to dozens of health problems for people in the surrounding communities. She traveled to the EPA to find out why it was taking decades to clean up the mess.
Rebecca hails from the "other" UT! A proud Longhorn, Rebecca graduated with honors from the University of Texas at Austin, earning degrees in both journalism and government. While at school she was a cheerleader for the Horns before she took time off the field to spend a semester abroad in Tel Aviv.
When she's not at work you can find Rebecca in the great outdoors with her husband Drew, their daughter Elle, and their dogs Rondo and Zoe.
Thanks to a career which has brought them all across the country, Rebecca and her husband are also talented home renovators.
They have designed and rebuilt multiple homes, and love breathing new life into properties that others overlook.
