Dan Ponce

Dan Ponce joined WGN News in September 2010 as a general assignment reporter for WGN News.

Prior to working at WGN-TV Ponce spent three years as a general assignment reporter at ABC-7 Chicago. He also worked as a weekend morning anchor/general assignment reporter at WILX-TV in Lansing, Michigan. He most recently toured the country with an a cappella group he founded called “Straight No Chaser,” the group released three albums with Atlantic Records.

A Chicagoland native, Ponce earned his master’s degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and his bachelor’s degree from Indiana University. Ponce speaks Spanish and is a member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.