Dan Lewis (newsreader)

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|known_for = news reporting, puns, golf

|occupation = Journalist

|nationality = American

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Dan Lewis (born December 19, 1949){{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/timlewissports/|title=I had a great time hiking with my dad Dan Lewis News yesterday on his birthday. We trekked to Teneriffe Falls in North Bend!| publisher=www.facebook.com|date=December 20, 2014|accessdate=December 22, 2014}} is a former long-time co-anchor and reporter for KOMO-TV in Seattle, Washington.

He came to KOMO-TV{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-p_smj5kYw | title=KOMO News 4 - Seattle Dan Lewis - ABC - Headlines Tonight - September 28, 1987 | website=YouTube }} in 1987 after working at WJLA-TV{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilJgsKc6VZs | title=Point of Rocks MD Nov 1985 Flood WUSA & WJLA | website=YouTube }} in Washington, D.C. Before that, he had worked at WISN-TV,{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0fdWcp-q9c | title=WISN-Dan Lewis and Tom Sutton Promos 1982 | website=YouTube }} WITI-TV,{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2Z5JC2Z1Ao | title=WITI - Campaign '80 Wisconsin Primary (1980) | website=YouTube }} WLKY-TV,{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXueVPkD32Q | title=Norcross WLKY 1978 Second Weathercast | website=YouTube }} KTBS-TV and KWKH. His career began at WBIG (AM) after graduating from Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

Alongside his co-anchor and reporter Kathi Goertzen, weather forecaster Steve Pool and sports reporter Eric Johnson, they were the third longest-running tenure out of any anchor team in the United States west of the Mississippi River. Until his retirement in 2014, Lewis served as co-anchor for the weekday editions of KOMO 4 News at 6:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. with Mary Nam. After multiple surgeries for aggressive recurring meningiomas, Goertzen died on August 13, 2012.{{cite news |url=http://www.komonews.com/kathi-goertzen/Kathi-Goertzen-dies-after-long-battle-with-brain-tumors-166022836.html |title=Kathi Goertzen dies after long battle with brain tumors |work=KOMO News |date=August 13, 2012 |access-date=August 16, 2012 |archive-date=September 6, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906174402/http://www.komonews.com/kathi-goertzen/Kathi-Goertzen-dies-after-long-battle-with-brain-tumors-166022836.html |url-status=dead }}

In 2002, Lewis and several other KOMO-TV staff members made cameo appearances in the movie Life or Something Like It, which starred Angelina Jolie and Edward Burns. He also briefly appeared in the remake of the 1984 film Red Dawn starring Chris Hemsworth, Josh Peck, Josh Hutcherson, Adrianne Palicki, Isabel Lucas, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan.