Tina Patel Mahoney is a reporter and fill-in anchor for KCBS-TV and KCAL-TV in Los Angeles. She has worked on-air for local television stations in Seattle, Las Vegas and Palm Springs. She also helped launch news operations in San Bernardino, CA and Wichita Falls, TX, and served as the news director for a television station in the U.S. Virgin Islands. A New Jersey native, Mahoney graduated from USC with bachelor’s degrees in broadcast journalism and international relations.