Luke Cleary joined WFAA 8 in Dallas–Fort Worth in September 2025 as a reporter.
Cleary comes to North Texas from TEGNA sister station ABC10 (KXTV) in Sacramento, California, where he worked as a weekend anchor and, before that, a multi-skilled journalist beginning in March 2021. At ABC10, he primarily worked as a solo video journalist, shooting and editing his own stories while covering a variety of daily and enterprise assignments.
Prior to his time in Sacramento, Cleary served as a weekend anchor and multi-skilled journalist at WQAD in Moline, Illinois.
A 2009 graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Cleary earned a degree in broadcast journalism before launching his international career. From 2009 to 2018, he worked as a television and radio host in Seoul, South Korea, primarily with the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS).
Beginning in 2013, Cleary served as the main anchor of News Today on KBS World TV for five years. During that time, he covered major global events, including the 2014 Sewol ferry disaster, the 2016–17 mass democratic protests and impeachment of former South Korean President Park Geun-hye, and the historic 2018 inter-Korean summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in.
Cleary is an active member of the National Press Photographers Association and is also an FAA-certified drone pilot.
