Steffan Tubbs

Steffan Tubbs is co-host of Colorado’s Morning News, 850 KOA’s award winning morning drive show, which he hosts with April Zesbaugh. Listeners throughout the state count on Steffan and April, and 850 KOA’s team of reporters, to start the day off informed with the top news stories, hot topics and frequent and informative traffic reports. If it’s happening live, you can bet Colorado’s Morning News will be there to cover the story accurately and thoroughly.

Steffan returned to Denver in 2005 from WNYW-FOX 5 in New York. Before joining WNYW-FOX 5, Steffan spent six years as a network correspondent for ABC news in Los Angeles. He was a reporter at Newsradio 850 KOA from 1994 to 1998 and was the station’s lead reporter on the trials of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols.

Domestically, Steffan has covered the Columbine shootings, Ground Zero, and a variety of natural disasters from floods to fires. He worked the Michael Jackson saga, the Scott Peterson murder trial and the Kobe Bryant case. Steffan has covered National Politics including both conventions in 1996 and 2004. Internationally he spent time in the Middle East covering the Church of Nativity standoff in Bethlehem and Pope John Paul II in Mexico City.

Steffan is a two-time winner of the Edward R. Murrow award for national reporting.

Tamara Banks

Tamara Banks is currently combining 20 years of journalism with her work as a Mayoral Appointee. Ms. Banks is producing documentary films and videos with Little Voice Productions; evoking positive social change through media and technology. She also facilitates numerous civic programs and workshops for organizations, neighborhoods and government agencies.

Ms. Banks is also a host for KBDI’s Studio 12 a provocative hour-long talk show taking a close look at relevant issues in Denver, Colorado and the nation. She also hosts Denver’s Channel 8 Issues and Options, a program delving into issues that effect Denver residents and its leaders.

She is the News Director for Martini on the Rockies and Sassy radio stations and the morning news anchor for Martini on the Rockies. Her passion for journalism is seen in her developing work with emerging democracies on free press issues. Her vision is to give insight to journalists in developing democracies about the importance of a free press in a democracy and help them find the tools to tell fair and balanced stories in those countries.

Ms. Banks is a well known former anchor/reporter at KWGN-TV’s WB2 News @ 9. Before coming to Denver she was an anchor/reporter at the ABC Affiliate at KRDO-TV in Colorado Springs. She’s also worked in radio and TV news in a number of markets including Dallas. The Colorado Broadcasters Association, Associated Press, the National Association of Black Journalists and the Colorado Association of Black Journalists, just to name a few, have all recognized Tamara for her journalism work.

Ms. Banks is the immediate past President for the Colorado Association of Black Journalists and served on the National Association of Black Journalists Board of Directors for five years. As the NABJ World Affairs Committee Chair, Ms. Banks traveled to Kenya in West Africa where she and ten other African-American journalists worked with Kenyan journalists and government officials. Ms. Banks also recently shot a documentary in Senegal, West Africa on American doctors serving the very needy.

Ms. Banks has also traveled around the world to tell fair, balanced stories about people of color including Haiti, Jordan, Senegal, Kenya, Peru and Panama. She also shares her experiences and knowledge and passion for journalism and civic engagement as a key note speaker and serves the community as a mistress of ceremonies at countless events.

Ms. Banks is an avid polo player and has traveled to Argentina to play the “Sport of Kings (and Queens)."

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