Justin Quesinberry anchors Your Morning on Spectrum News 1.

He is a native of the North Carolina mountains and spent most of the past two decades reporting and anchoring in central North Carolina. Justin now co-anchors the station’s newscasts each weekday morning beginning at 5 a.m.

Justin graduated from Wingate University, where he served as editor of the campus newspaper and worked at the college TV station. While at Wingate, he completed several internships at WLOS in Asheville. He also wrote for his hometown paper, The Black Mountain News.

Before covering news in his home state, he spent 2004-2006 at then-NBC affiliate WHAG (now WDVM) in Hagerstown, MD. While at WHAG, Justin served as the Cumberland bureau reporter covering news in four states.

He first began covering the Triad in 2006 for WFMY, where he spent nearly five years as a reporter and fill-in anchor. In 2011, Justin moved to WNCN-TV in Raleigh where he spent more than seven years as a reporter and anchor. He began anchoring the weekend morning news on WNCN shortly after the station debuted the newscasts in 2014.

Justin joined the Spectrum News team in June 2018 as the station’s morning and afternoon anchor for the Triad and as anchor of Spectrum News on ABC 45 WXLV. In 2020, he was promoted to anchor the morning news for the Triangle and coastal region.

Justin has covered everything from breaking news to award-winning feature stories. He’s reported on hurricanes along the North Carolina coast and their impacts inland, as well as multiple tornadoes, including the historic outbreak in April 2011.

He has also had the opportunity to interview governors and cover visits to North Carolina from sitting presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Donald Trump, as well as multiple visits by former President Bill Clinton. Justin spent a week in Charlotte covering the funeral for the late evangelist, the Rev. Billy Graham.

Justin’s work has been recognized by the Maryland School Bell Awards, the Society of Professional Journalists’ Green Eyeshade Awards, and the Radio Television Digital News Association of the Carolinas (RTDNAC). In 2020, the RTDNAC awarded Justin second place for TV News Anchor of the Year. Most recently, Justin and his co-anchors were named RTDNAC Anchor Team of the Year in 2023. He and his Spectrum News co-anchors also earned second place TV News Anchor Team of the Year in 2020 and 2022.

You can follow Justin on Instagram, X (formerly Twitter) and Facebook @JustinQuesinberryNews.