BIOGRAPHY

Tim Lake is an American journalist and non-fiction writer, and the author of The Bergdoll Boys, Hang on and Fly, Association Island, and Henderson Harbor.

A veteran of newspapers, radio, and television news, Tim spent 21 years as a news anchor for the CBS and NBC-owned television station, WCAU-TV, in Philadelphia, the nation's 4th largest TV market. Previously he was a news anchor at KPRC-TV in Houston, Texas, and WCSC-TV in Charleston, South Carolina. He finished a long career in television as a primary news anchor at WTEN-TV in New York State’s capital, Albany, where he also hosted a political talk show, Empire State Weekly, on 10 television stations across New York. 

Tim’s TV career has included important news coverage either reporting or anchoring, from the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, Iraq War politics at the U.S. Capitol and The White House in Washington, multiple hurricanes, commercial airline crashes, the 9/11 terror attacks, the Covid-19 pandemic, several national political conventions, and inaugurations, from Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump, and major sports events from Triple Crown horse racing to professional football, basketball, and baseball. He has performed live and recorded appearances on network TV news programs for NBC and CBS and hosted multiple long-form documentaries about political, social, and entertainment issues from Washington, Philadelphia, and New York.
  
Tim has written for the Jamestown Post-Journal, The Buffalo News, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Thousand Islands Life, and The Land Report.  Tim was arrested and jailed for broadcasting a news report in South Carolina, but the charges were dropped and the court record expunged. Tim is a multiple Emmy award-winner and was inducted into the ​Philadelphia Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame in 2011.