Joyce Oscar, reporter and anchor for the Channel 2 Action News team since 1985, began her career in television with Atlanta's Cable News Network. Hired as a video journalist, she was one of the first 300 staffers, with duties ranging from camera operation, tape editing, writing, graphics and audio.

Following Cable News, she joined WJBF-TV in Augusta as reporter and weekend anchor, winning spot news awards from UPI and the West Augusta Rotary Club. Joyce was subsequently hired by WDEF-TV in Chattanooga, Tenn., as its 6 and 11 p.m. co-anchor and co-producer.

A native of Chicago, Ill., Joyce graduated from Western Illinois University in Macomb, Ill., with a major in mass communication and a minor in marketing.

She currently is involved with the Metro United Way Agency, the Georgia Association of Newscasters, and the Sigma Delta Chi Journalism Society. She also has membership with the High Museum of Art and Peachtree Arts.

Joyce was named to the 1989-90 Who's Who in American Women, and in 1990 she won the State and City Silver Gavel Awards for her series on suspended driver's licenses. She was WSB-TV's primary on-site reporter during the Storm of 1993, when she was stranded in Chatsworth for four days. She subsequently was named Honorary Citizen of Murray County by the House of Representatives and was interviewed by Joan Lunden on "Good Morning America."

Joyce married husband Jerry in 1990, and they have two children -- Jennifer, born in March 1992, and Jeremy, born in July 1994.

You can email Joyce at joyce.oscar@wsbtv.com