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Age: 52
Occupation: Vice president of news for WGN America

In January, Lyons, who’d been news director at WGN-9 since 2014, got a big promotion. As vice president of news for WGN’s national cable network, she now oversees News Nation, a three-hour nightly newscast featuring a beefed-up staff of journalists that will make its premiere this summer.