Lori Stokes (born September 16, 1962) is the Co-anchor of Good Day New York WNYW Fox 5 with Rosanna Scotto in New York City. She was co-anchor of Eyewitness News This Morning on WABC-TV. She joined the station on April 17, 2000, as part of an effort to increase ratings on WABC's morning newscast and helped bring the broadcast to #1. She departed WABC-TV on August 16, 2017, without much forewarning to viewers and colleagues. The station aired a highlight reel of her contributions and accomplishments at the end of that morning's newscast and she said farewell to viewers before signing off from Eyewitness News for the final time.
Stokes began her journalistic career as the medical reporter and then weekend co-anchor at WCIA in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois in 1986. Then, in 1988, she worked as a reporter and weekend anchor for WBTV in Charlotte, North Carolina. There for two years, she became popular with the viewers in that state.