Sophia Stamas has left her position as morning traffic anchor and Multimedia Journalist (MMJ) at CBS Austin KEYE.
Stamas joined the station in August 2015 as a Special Projects and Investigative Producer. A proud native Austinite, Stamas spent her entire life in Texas, never calling another state home.
During her time at CBS Austin, Stamas earned a Lone Star Emmy Award for an investigative report exposing excessive foreign travel spending by a state agency.
Before joining CBS Austin, Stamas worked as the Weekend Anchor and Military Reporter at KCEN 6 Waco-Temple-Killeen. Her "Military Matters" coverage took her as far as Bagram, Afghanistan, where she embedded with Army troops in 2012 and 2014. She also covered military stories closer to home, including Fort Hood (now called Fort Cavazos) and Lackland Air Force Base.
Stamas began her reporting career as a MMJ at KXII 12 Sherman and previously worked as a producer at YNN in Austin (now called Spectrum News 1 Austin).
She graduated summa cum laude from Texas State University in 2007 with a bachelor’s degree in Print Journalism and a minor in Theatre. While at Texas State, Stamas wrote and cartooned for the University Star newspaper, performed in numerous theatre productions, and worked part-time as a communications specialist for a major international staffing company. She also served as a teaching assistant for the university’s Stage Combat class, where she learned to choreograph realistic fight scenes—though she always believed the pen was mightier than the sword.
Beyond her journalism career, she served on the KLRU Community Advisory Board from 2008 to 2012.
In 2013, Stamas received the Central Texas Crime Prevention Association's Outstanding Media Award for her coverage of the Fort Hood shooter trial, the West explosion, and stories highlighting Military Police and crime prevention efforts.
