By Frank Macek
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| Jasmine Monroe. Courtesy First Coast News |
She was a spark in 3News’ early hours—nimble in breaking news, generous with community features, and quick with a smile that telegraphed warmth as much as authority. Then she stepped away from local air—off on a new chapter that, true to form, has been ambitious and purpose-driven. So where is Jasmine Monroe now, and how did she get there?
Monroe closed her WKYC chapter in the spring of 2022 with an on-air farewell that felt less like a send-off and more like a thank-you from Northeast Ohio. Colleagues saluted her reportorial chops and her bond with viewers; the goodbye underscored how thoroughly she had woven herself into the market’s morning fabric.
Her next stop: Florida’s capital. In October 2022, Monroe joined WTXL (ABC 27) in Tallahassee as a morning anchor on the “Sunrise” desk, bringing the big-market polish she’d honed in Cleveland. Station and trade announcements introducing her to viewers sketched the path that preceded WKYC—Pittsburgh roots; a broadcast-journalism degree from Clarion University; internships at KDKA-TV/Radio and at BET Networks in Washington during the 2012 BET Awards cycle; and early-career reporting at WFMJ in Youngstown.
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| Jasmine Monroe at WKYC-TV |
Today, Monroe serves First Coast News as an anchor and reporter, part of a morning team that prizes accountability reporting, neighborhood-level enterprise, and upbeat chemistry. The station’s “Meet the Team” roster lists her in that dual role, and viewers across Jacksonville and the broader First Coast have found the same qualities Clevelanders recognized: a polished delivery that never feels distant and a curiosity that never turns performative.
If her Florida chapter looks like a logical next step, that’s because Monroe has long stacked experiences that widen her lens. In Cleveland, she became a morning mainstay and—memorably—the face of the station’s Akron-Canton mobile newsroom, an initiative that extended daily reporting beyond the core city and deepened ties with Summit and Stark counties. In Youngstown, she contributed to “Project Feed Our Valley,” a community campaign that garnered regional recognition; in Cleveland, she ultimately added three Emmys to the résumé, a shorthand for the consistency and craft that colleagues noticed long before awards did.
Values—more than résumé lines—have marked her path. During the fraught summer of 2020, Monroe used her platform to speak candidly about family, safety, and the lived experience of being Black in America. The segment wasn’t a detour from journalism but an embrace of its first principles: truth-telling and humanity. Viewers still share that moment as a reminder that local anchors and reporters aren’t abstractions; they live the stakes of the stories they cover.
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| Jasmine Monroe at WKYC-TV |
The “Where Are They Now?” answer turns out to be less about geography than about continuity. She’s doing the same mission in a different place, with fresh sources, new neighborhoods, and the same compass.
There’s also a piece you won’t see tucked between the blocks and bumps: platform fluency. Monroe is part of a cohort of local journalists who treat Instagram, X, and other social hubs as extensions of the newsroom—places to listen as much as to publish. Her feeds reflect both her professional arc (3× Emmy-winning news anchor, now Florida-based) and a growing slate of off-air pursuits, including emceeing community events and promoting voice-coaching and speaking engagements—another way of helping people find their voice with intention.
For Northeast Ohio readers, it’s hard not to hold the Jacksonville chapter against memories of her Cleveland run. At 3News, Monroe’s storytelling ranged widely—commuter-belt features one morning, accountability pieces the next—threaded by a brisk, friendly delivery that fit the A.M. blend of utility and uplift. She also became a recognizable face beyond the set. A summer cover feature in Haute Ohio Magazine captured that broader community profile: a journalist as comfortable in neighborhood spaces and classrooms as she was at the anchor desk.
Zoom out on the résumé and you see a pattern. Pittsburgh roots. A formative stretch in Youngstown—long a newsroom that punches above its weight in a competitive Ohio corridor. A leap to a Top-20 market in Cleveland, where she sharpened live-shot instincts and morning-show pacing. A reset in Florida’s capital to refine the anchor voice. And now a seat on a major market’s sunrise team along the Atlantic coast. The map doubles as a curriculum: community-minded journalism in one city, adapted and expanded in the next.
There’s also a mentoring dimension to where she is now. In Cleveland, she frequently elevated student voices and community leaders who didn’t always have media megaphones. In Florida, her event work and coaching signal a commitment to lifting others in structured ways—on stages, in classrooms, and inside workplaces where public speaking is a hurdle for otherwise talented professionals. Recent appearances around Jacksonville, including women’s empowerment programming, suggest she’s leaning into that calling as part of her broader community footprint.
For those in Northeast Ohio who miss seeing her on 3News, the good news is she hasn’t vanished. Between First Coast News’ morning shows and her social platforms, Monroe remains easy to find—and her style remains familiar. She laughs easily on set without losing focus, shows curiosity without condescension, and brings a neighborly cadence to conversations that can otherwise feel transactional. If you liked her in Cleveland, you’ll like her in Jacksonville; the market is different, but the approach is the same.
So, where is Jasmine Monroe now? She’s in Jacksonville, waking up the First Coast, anchoring and reporting on the stories that set the day’s tone. She’s also on stages and in workshops, helping others find the confidence to share their stories well. And for Clevelanders who remember her city-to-suburb live shots, her Akron-Canton coverage sprints, and her moments of unguarded honesty, she remains what she has always been: a journalist who keeps the human center of every story in view, wherever she’s telling it.