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Andrea Lutz

Posted at 7:22 PM, Dec 27, 2018
and last updated 2019-11-22 16:46:25-05
Andrea Lutz

Andrea Lutz joined the Q2 news team in August of 2018 and anchors the MTN 9 o’clock News on CW Montana.

Born and raised in Kalispell, Andrea has over a decade of local television news experience.

She started her television career in her hometown serving as bureau chief of KAJ-TV after graduating the University of Montana School of Journalism in 2001. She then moved to Missoula to work for KPAX-TV.

While in Missoula, Andrea met President Barack Obama on his 2008 campaign trail and won a breaking Montana Broadcaster’s award on the closure of Frenchtown’s Smurfit Stone Container plant.

Andrea moved to southern Idaho in 2011 to work for KTVB, where she reported and anchored the Saturday Morning News. While there, she did an in-depth investigation into Idaho’s prescription drug abuse epidemic and did comprehensive coverage of the Orchard Combat Training Center, a massive state of the art military training facility in the Idaho desert.

Andrea moved back to Montana in 2015 to serve as News Director for the ABC/FOX affiliates in western Montana where she managed news operations in the Missoula, Butte, Bozeman and Kalispell.

Before coming to Q2, Andrea was most recently with Wake up Montana in Billings.

She calls herself “Montana’s biggest fan,” and can be found most weekends hiking around Montana with her golden retriever Finley and her fiancé, Andy.