Anqoinette Crosby
Consumer Host/Reporter/Producer

International award-winning journalist, Anqoinette “AQ” Crosby has driven some of the fastest, hottest cars on the planet. Anqoinette has combined a lifelong love of cars with her extensive journalistic background to present award-wining stories that captivate her viewers.

For the sixth year in a row, Anqoinette wrote and co-hosted coverage of Motor Trend’s International Auto Show for WMAR/2.  The live broadcast aired during prime time on Feb. 11, 2010.

While working as the Consumer Reporter on MotorWeek, airing nationally on PBS and SPEED Network, Anqoinette traveled throughout America and the world evaluating new cars. She’s gone from such extremes as ice driving at the Arctic Circle to test the newest BMW’s to burning rubber on a race track clocking 150 mph with former Indy 500 Champ Bobby Rahal.

Anqoinette was the first African-American on-air personality in MotorWeek’s 28-year history. During her 6-year tenure, she hosted and produced a consumer segment called, “FYI.” She is a credible source for product information and created the popular car lifestyles segment, “GEAR” about the trendiest automotive accessories.

She then went on to host a prime-time consumer car show for Washington DC’s, WUSA/9. She also writes a car lifestyles column for WTTG Fox 5’s Myvoicedc.com.

Anqoinette was recently awarded a Broadcast Journalism Fellowship by the Radio-Television News Directors Foundation. She traveled to Germany, the Czech Republic and Brussels meeting with high level politicians, economists, and officials at NATO headquarters. In 2005, she was honored by Virginia Commonwealth University as an African American Trailblazer in journalism.

Before reporting on cars, Anqoinette was chasing down criminals. She thrust herself into the thick of things during the Washington, D.C., sniper coverage and has covered national stories for Conus Communications, Fox TV's "America's Most Wanted" and local news markets in Lubbock, Texas, Baltimore, San Jose and San Francisco.

From Texas and California to the nation's capital, Anqoinette has immersed herself in the headlines of the day.  These experiences of reporting hard news and presenting feature stories have given Anqoinette an uncanny understanding of consumer needs and wants.