Brooke Buford

Brooke Buford is an anchor for First Look, News Channel 5 at 6 and Second Look, and a criminal justice system reporter at KALB.

While she originally calls Baltimore, Maryland home, she has lived in Central Louisiana since first starting her career in broadcasting at KALB in 2011. In 2012, Brooke left to work at a news station in Portland, Maine – later returning to KALB in 2014.

In 2016, Brooke was one of about two dozen journalists from the United States selected by the University of South Carolina’s School of Law for a week-long media-law school fellowship.

In 2017, she was one of 12 journalists from the United States selected to take part in an all-expense-paid fellowship called the RIAS German-American Exchange Program. She spent two weeks in Germany and Belgium meeting other journalists around the globe. While there she also spent time with key members of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s team and took part in seminars at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin, the European Commission, and NATO.

Brooke loves doing volunteer work in the community. She spent two years on the board of directors for the YWCA Alexandria-Pineville.

In her spare time, she loves to travel abroad.