Melissa Hudson, Executive Producer - Digital
Melissa got the TV bug while working at the public access station in her high school in Columbus, Indiana many years ago. She was directing live television shows before she could drive.
After high school, she attended Indiana University in Bloomington. While in school she worked at Bloomington Community Access Television where she was a Master Control Operator, then Production Assistant.
As a production assistant, she was part of the crew that covered nearly every government meeting in Monroe County. The best part of the job was learning how government works from the school board, to the solid waste district to the planning commission and city council.
Melissa graduated from IU and earned a full time position at BCAT and was the Programming Director for the government and public access stations.
After seven years at BCAT, Melissa moved to Fort Myers, Florida where she worked in the newsroom at Waterman Broadcasting, which operates NBC2 and ABC7.
She was an Internet News Producer and wrote stories, edited content, created interactive content and live-blogged a double murder trial from gavel to gavel. She won two Edward R. Murrow Awards for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism - Best Website while working at the station.
Melissa moved from Fort Myers to South Bend to be the Director of Online Content for ABC57 and has helped grow the website and social media presence of the station since 2012.
Articles by Melissa Hudson
- Fugitive Friday for November 11, 2022
- Suspect in shooting at Quality Inn taken into custody
- Driver arrested after fleeing police while holding 5 people against their will
- Gift of Lights returns to Potawatomi Zoo this holiday season
- Mural honors star athlete Skylar Diggins-Smith
- Delphi double murder suspect asks for public defender
- ABC announces midseason premiere dates
- Governor Gretchen Whitmer wins gubernatorial race
- Election Day: Election Results
- Jim Smith wins Kosciusko County Sheriff's race
- Michigan: Interactive maps showing results of Gubernatorial and House races
- Indiana: Interactive map of US Senate and House race results
- LIVE: ABC News election coverage
- Michigan election: Proposition 3 - Reproductive Freedom Passes
- Election Day in Michigan: What you need to know
- Election Day in Indiana: What you need to know
- Conservation officers recover 5 stolen cars during training exercise
- Coming up on this week's ABC57 Kickoff
- Fugitive Friday for November 4, 2022
- Arrest made in shots fired investigation and separate battery investigation
- Man accused of striking, strangling girlfriend
- Man accused of trying to shoot girlfriend during argument
- Deputies conducting death investigation after man found in farm field
- Stellantis: Park older models due to 3 Takata air bag deaths
- Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum's Santa Trains return this season
- Charges filed against man who was shot at Quality Inn
- Hoosier Lottery CA$H 5 ticket worth $354K sold in Rochester
- Hoosiers Feeding the Hungry asking hunters for donations of venison
- ISP trooper injured when his patrol vehicle was hit while investigating crash
- Driver dies several days after crash on SR 120
- Local pharmacies experiencing some shortages of Adderall
- Convicted killer accused of raping downtown South Bend ambassador
- Penn Harris Madison school board candidate forum scheduled for Tuesday November 1
- Deputies investigating theft of 80-100 catalytic converters
- Man killed in crash at CR 17 and CR 20
- Trick or treat times for Halloween 2022
- Irish Legend: Anthony Fasano
- Coming up on future episodes of ABC57 Kickoff
- Todd Burlage weighs in on Notre Dame vs Syracuse
- Officers and suspect exchange gunfire, suspect flees
- ABC57 Friday Night Football: October 28, 2022
- Coming up on this week's ABC57 Kickoff
- Michigan City Mayor charged with leaving the scene of an accident
- Deputy and former deputy charged with ghost employment
- Michigan Court of Appeals upholds Kemia Hassel's murder conviction
- Deputies release name of intruder killed in shooting
- Indiana State Police holding press conference about Delphi investigation
- Pedestrian killed on US 421
- Fugitive Friday for October 28, 2022
- Suspect arrested in shooting at Carriage House Apartments
- South Bend man sentenced to 14 years for string of armed robberies
- One dead, three injured in crash on US 12
- Historic building in downtown La Porte collapses
- What is RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus)?
- Arrest made in arson at apartment complex in Coloma
- Deputies investigating fatal shooting during burglary
- One person killed in collision with semi
- La Porte man convicted of drug, gun charges
- Driver convicted of fleeing deputies, faces 15 years in prison
- Motorcyclist arrested after allegedly fleeing police
- Senator Peters, D-Mich. weighs in on governor's race
- Fabius Township Supervisor charged with sexual assault
- Michiana Crime Stoppers schedules Fall Shredding Event for October 29
- Hershberger pleads guilty to arson in string of barn fires
- 18-year-old sentenced to 60 years in prison for death of Vincenzo Trozzy
- Woman dies after being rescued from house fire in Benton Harbor
- Pastor charged with misdemeanor criminal sexual conduct
- ABC releases its holiday program schedule for Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's
- Man injured in shooting at Washington Park
- No more tickets available for Cops and Goblins tonight at Four Winds Field
- Westbound lanes of John Beers Road to close to traffic this weekend
- Prime Minister Liz Truss quits, but UK's political and economic turmoil persist
- South Bend Record Show set for October 30 at new location
- Chicago man sentenced for two bank robberies in South Bend
- Man arrested after allegedly stealing phone from casino patron
- Man charged with armed robbery of auto parts store
- Wakarusa's annual Pumpkin Tree tradition continues
- Deputies serve search warrant as part of narcotics investigation
- Social Security allowing citizens to self-select gender, change current designation
- Man who may have been at homicide scene charged with possessing machine gun