Renee Johnson

Renee Johnson is proud to serve as News Director for WLOX, the television station she grew up watching.

Renee started working at WLOX when she was a senior at Ocean Springs High School back in the early 90s. As a teen, she co-hosted two of the station's "Viewpoint Youth" talk shows, but fell in love with writing and all the behind-the-scenes work.

After graduating from the University of South Alabama, Renee worked as a producer for years before making the jump to WLOX.com. She would oversee the station's digital growth for the next 20 years as the Digital Content Manager.

She's especially proud of being part of the team that kept WLOX on the air before, during and after Hurricane Katrina's landfall in 2005. That work won the station several major journalism awards, including a Peabody, an Emmy, and an Edward R. Murrow Award.

"Every night growing up, my family sat around the dinner table and watched WLOX News. I've been lucky enough to learn from and become friends with so many of those people I looked up to as a kid."

Renee has actually spent so much time at the station over the years, she married one of her co-workers, and almost went into labor in the newsroom. She currently lives in Diamondhead with her husband, and their two awesome kids.