Natasha Chughtai joined the KVAL News team in April of 2007 as an Anchor/Reporter. She comes to Eugene from Anchorage, Alaska where she worked for 2 years at the NBC affiliate, KTUU as a Weekend Anchor and Education Beat reporter. Despite having to report in thirty below weather and get her tires changed every winter, Natasha says it was one of the best experiences of her career.

Some of her best memories include traveling to the remote Bering Sea village of Savoonga to unearth a mysterious "whistling language", getting the chance to interview legendary carver Floyd Kingeekuk and flying across the state in tiny float planes.

Natasha got her start in Journalism in Minnesota where upon graduation she took her first job on the shores of Lake Superior as a Reporter for the CBS affiliate in Duluth.

Another stop along the way in her love for television news was when she became the on-air host of the very first public television program in the Twin Cities focusing on South Asian business owners in the area.

Natasha has won numerous awards for her work including "Best Single Story" from the Alaska Press Club on her story focusing on Methamphetamine Orphans and "Best Educational Story" for her work in the village of Savoonga an island on the Bering Sea.

Natasha is also a proud member of the Asian American Journalists Association.

You can catch her weeknights on FOX at 10:00pm and if you get the time, drop her a line. She loves to hear what viewers have to say.