Sheldon Dutes Biography
Sheldon Dutes is an American anchor and reporter for WISN 12 News. He co-anchors the weekday editions of WISN 12 News, and also reports for various newscasts. Dutes joined WISN 12 in 2015 as a weekend evening co-anchor.
Sheldon has earned WISN 12 News two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Achievement for News Programming. This is through his live reporting from the field and the anchor desk during breaking news.
Dutes began his journalism career at the NBC affiliate in South Bend, Indiana serving as a production assistant. Before moving to join WISN 12, he spent three years covering breaking news and severe weather in New York City, NJ, and CT as a reporter for WNBC-TV.
Dutes once worked as a general assignment reporter for WBAL-TV, the Hearst-owned NBC affiliate in Baltimore. He also reported for WCSC-TV in Charleston, South Carolina in the United States. Dutes also serves as an advisory board member for The Gallivan Program in Journalism, Ethics, and Democracy at Notre Dame. Sheldon was elected as Vice President of the Wisconsin Black Media Association in 2019.
