Erin Kelly  is a reporter in the Spectrum News Washington, D.C., bureau covering regional and national politics with a focus on Kentucky.

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Erin joined the Spectrum News 1 team in Kentucky as anchor/reporter in December 2020 and reported on Kentucky’s politics and people, with a focus on the opioid crisis. 

In January 2024, she moved to our D.C. bureau to cover national politics. 

Her broadcast and print reporting career began in 2011 and has taken her to newsrooms in Mississippi, Virginia and Alabama.

Erin reported extensively on the 2011 Mississippi River flood, the hate crime murder of James Craig Anderson, the corruption trial of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and a 2019 tornado that killed 23 people in Alabama. 

She was named the 2019 CNHI Division II Reporter of the Year and wrote the main story for a team report on a child neglect case that was awarded the 2019 Mississippi Press Association’s Bill Minor Prize for Investigative Journalism for Daily Newspapers. 

Erin calls Annapolis, Md., home and loves to cook, run, and shop for used records.