Ariel Schiller joined the News4Jax team as an evening reporter in September 2023. She comes to Jacksonville from Tallahassee, where she worked at ABC27 as a weekend anchor/reporter for 10 months. Before that she worked in Macon, Georgia, for two years as a reporter and fill-in anchor for 41NBC. During that time she covered elections on every level, the community pushback of a plastics to fuel facility, the effects of a federal tax lien placed on the city of Warner Robins and the growing economy of local cities around the region. She started her news career in Greenville, South Carolina, working as a photojournalist for Fox Carolina for four years. She was on the team that won a Southeast Emmy for their coverage of Hurricane Dorian. Ariel was born and raised in Boca Raton. She graduated from the University of South Florida with a degree in mass communications in 2014.