About Rachel

Rachel believes establishing trust with the viewer is of the utmost importance: that relationship has enabled her to enterprise stories, create compelling television and win awards.

Rachel (Pfanner) Wulff earned her Masters in Broadcast Journalism from American University, after receiving her undergraduate degree in International Relations from California State University, Chico. Her first on-air job was in Salisbury, Maryland at WMDT-TV. She learned a lot about crabbing, Nor’Easters and the poultry industry and met her future husband there. Together they headed to the Midwest.

Rachel worked as a weekend anchor/reporter at WTOL-TV, the #1 station in Toledo. It was there that Rachel covered the 2004 presidential campaign. She did a series of reports on ‘Tornado Sunday’, when five people died after a freak line of funnel clouds touched down in early November. As the ‘Assignment Education’ reporter, Rachel followed Toledo Public Schools as the district climbed out of Academic Emergency.

Rachel opted to return to the Northeast for a job as a reporter/fill-in anchor at Comcast News 8, a regional cable network based in Philadelphia. During her time there she filled in as co-host of ‘Your Morning’, seen by up to 9 million viewers from Boston to Richmond. After CN8 closed its news operatons, she briefly worked as a freelance reporter at FOX 29 in Philadelphia before heading South to=2 0New Orleans.

In the past year, Rachel has covered a wide variety of revitalization issues as the city continues to recover after Hurricane Katrina. She developed a regular segment called 'Neighbor or Nuisance' which tracks down homeowners who abandoned their property after the storm and then helps get the properties cleaned up. Rachel also traveled more than 40 miles off Louisiana's coast with scientists to study the 'Dead Zone' --an area where pollution is killing sea life.