词条 | Sukanya Krishnan |
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Sukanya Krishnan ({{lang-ta|சுகன்யா கிருஷ்ணன்}}; born August 2, 1971) is an American news anchor. She is the morning news anchor on Good Day Wake Up, the early addition before Good Day New York on Fox 5 NY WNYW in New York City, alongside with Jennifer Lahmers.{{citation needed|date=February 2018}} She previously anchored for the PIX Morning News on WPIX in New York City, paired with Scott Stanford. She originally joined WPIX on August 8, 2001, left in late 2003 to become one of the four hosts of the syndicated TV show Home Delivery[1] and returned to the WB11 Morning News (later CW11 Morning News, now PIX Morning News) anchor chair in 2005. Krishnan has won numerous community service awards, as well as many others from Indian American organizations for representing South Asians in the media. In 2006, Krishnan won her first Emmy for On-Camera Achievement (News Anchor/Host) from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS). She was the first Indian American woman to work in the New York market at a local network affiliate. Family and early lifeBorn in Madras, India (now Chennai), Krishnan grew up on Staten Island and attended New Dorp High School, where among her classmates was Wu-Tang Clan member, Method Man. In 1993, she graduated from Dickinson College with a bachelor's degree in Spanish, and as president of the senior class. Krishnan's prior experience in the New York news market included a stint at WCBS-TV, from June 1997 to July 2001 as a general assignment reporter. In 1995 she was an anchor, reporter and producer of the 6 pm and 11 pm news broadcasts at ABC affiliate WUTR-TV in Utica, New York. She cut her teeth in broadcasting at Long Island's WLIG-TV in 1994. During her year there, Krishnan did a variety of jobs from shooting, writing, and editing news stories behind the camera to reporting on the air in front of the camera. It was during her internship at WLIG-TV that Krishnan first began her pursuit of a career in broadcasting. Prior to joining WCBS-TV, she was a morning/noon anchor and reporter for WHP-TV, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania's CBS affiliate. She covered various stories including TWA Flight 800, the "Million Man March" and the floods of 1996 which wreaked havoc on central Pennsylvania. While at WCBS-TV, Krishnan covered breaking news for CBS 2's 5, 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts. The range of stories she covered included everything from the Clinton White House impeachment proceedings, then-Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's cleanup of Times Square, the Abner Louima beating, and the 1998 race between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa to be the first to exceed Roger Maris's single-season home run record. In addition to her Emmy Award, Krishnan has also won the Project Impact (formerly Indian American Political Awareness Committee)'s "Creating A Voice" Award, and a Distinguished Broadcast Journalist commendation from the Office of the Comptroller of the City of New York, for her work covering the immediate aftermath of the September 11 attacks. Her community volunteering includes being a celebrity judge for the 2005 [https://web.archive.org/web/20070101224610/http://www.ironskilletcookoff.org/participants/index.shtml Iron Skillet Cookoff]. In March 2004, Krishnan played a reporter covering the mob on the "Two Tonys" episode of HBO's The Sopranos. In July 2006, she was honored at the FeTNA (Federation of Tamil Sangams of North America) annual convention held in New York City. On October 9, 2007, Krishnan was named one of the 2007 Power Women by New York Moves Magazine, at an awards ceremony hosted by Academy Award-winning actress Mira Sorvino and MC'd by comedian Judy Gold. Personal lifeOn the CW11 Morning News on September 17, 2007, she announced her marriage to Eric Schroeder. She gave birth to a son, Kiran, on July 22, 2009. They live on Staten Island. Sukanya returned to the Morning News October 12, 2009. On May 31, 2013 Sukanya gave birth to a daughter, Shyla Alexy. On May 30, 2013 her husband, Eric, was promoted to Captain in the FDNY. On May 3, 2017, at the end of the PIX11 6-9 Morning News, she announced her final weeks as one of the station's co-anchors. Her last day on-air was Thursday, May 18, 2017. On August 21, 2017, Sukanya Krishnan joined Fox 5 news WNYW as one of the new morning anchors of Good Day Wake Up from, 4:30am-7am replacing Teresa Priolo and Antwan Lewis. See also
References1. ^ {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060427024634/http://www.homedeliverytv.com/ |date=2006-04-27 }} External links
12 : 1971 births|American Hindus|American television journalists|American women journalists of Indian descent|Living people|People from Chennai|Indian emigrants to the United States|People from Staten Island|Dickinson College alumni|Television anchors from New York City|New York (state) television reporters|American women television journalists |
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