An award-winning reporter, Travers is a member of the WDSU Investigative Unit called the I-Team.

Travers arrived at WDSU in the summer of 2003, since then he's tackled crime stories, environmental issues and politics. Travers covered the headquarters of Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, U.S. Sen. David Vitter and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin on past election nights.

Travers' journeys as a journalist have taken him many places. He made a trip to Fort Benning, Ga., to cover soldiers headed to Bosnia and made another stop at Camp Shelby, Miss., to report on troops headed to Iraq. He's covered shark attacks on the Florida Panhandle, been to the nation's Capitol to cover hurricane recovery efforts and in 2007 provided live reports from Super Bowl XLI in Miami for NBC NewsChannel and MSNBC. Travers also reported for stations around the country on the Jena 6 case in rural Louisiana.

The biggest story of Travers' career was covering Hurricane Katrina in the summer of 2005.

He was one of only a handful of journalists to ride out the storm in the Louisiana Superdome and offer live, firsthand reports as parts the Superdome roof blew off.

Travers was also on a police boat, bringing viewers the story of rescue attempts hours after the levees broke in New Orleans, when much of the city was under water. He also anchored much of the station's round-the-clock coverage in the weeks following the storm and was featured in the documentary "Seven Days That Changed New Orleans."

Prior to coming to WDSU, Travers worked as an anchor and reporter in Monroe, La., at KTVE-TV, and he spent almost three years reporting for WLBT-TV in Jackson, Miss.

Travers is a graduate of Loyola University in New Orleans. He played for Loyola's baseball team while in college.

A New Orleans native, Travers currently lives in Mid-City. In 1997 and 1998, he interned at WDSU.

Travers is the son of the late Frank Mackel, a longtime New Orleans golf professional. His twin brother, Fletcher, is a sports anchor and reporter at NewsChannel 6.