Carolyn Gusoff is an American television news reporter and author, working as a Long Island reporter at

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in New York City. Prior to that, she spent three years as a reporter at Fox 5 in New York City, and before that she worked for 15 years at

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as the Long Island Bureau Chief/Reporter and anchor of Weekend Today in New York. Her book, ''Buried Memories: Katie Beers' Story'', which she wrote in collaboration with kidnapping victim

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, is a ''New York Times'' bestseller.

Career

Gusoff graduated from

George W. Hewlett High School George W. Hewlett High School (also known as Hewlett High School, or HHS, and replacing Woodmere High School) is a four-year public high school in Hewlett Bay Park, New York, United States. Located in the Five Towns area of Long Island, it is t ...

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with a bachelor's degree in English and Government and the

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, where she earned a master's degree in Journalism. Gusoff started her career in Fort Myers, Florida where she worked at WEVU-TV, an ABC affiliate at the time, and WLEQ-FM. In the late 1980s, Gusoff began working at

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. In August 1993, Gusoff joined

, the NBC owned and operated station in

. Gusoff was the Long Island Correspondent and Bureau Chief. During her time on NBC 4, she covered the crash of

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, the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 and the Blizzard of 1996. Until fall 2008, Gusoff anchored ''Today in New York'' on Saturday and Sunday mornings on WNBC. On December 31, 2008, Gusoff was let go from WNBC amid station-wide downsizing. Gusoff joined

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Fox 5 in the Spring of 2009 and covered breaking news in the metropolitan area for Good Day New York. In January 2012, she was hired by WCBS-TV to cover the Long Island Beat. Buried Memories was released in January 2013. A new edition, published by Beaufort Books of New York was released in April 2015.

Awards

Her honors include four New York Emmy Awards and seventeen New York Emmy nominations. She won an Emmy and AP award for "Littered Landscape," an investigative report about litter uncollected on privately adopted highways. She was nominated for writing and research of "37%" a documentary about the poorly performing Hempstead School District. She was part of the winning team that earned WCBS an Emmy for its coverage of Superstorm Sandy. In 2004, she was awarded a New York Emmy Award for On-Camera Performance/General Assignment Reporting for the Mepham Hazing Scandal and earlier, for coverage of an Instant Breaking News Story. Gusoff's Emmy nominations honored her reporting of the American Airlines Flight 587 crash and the Belmont Stakes. She has garnered dozens of Long Island Fair Media Council FOLIO awards in categories ranging from "Best Feature" to "Best Blog," “Enterprise Reporting” and “Investigative Journalism,” and multiple first-place Society of Professional Journalists/Press Club of Long Island awards. Carolyn has also been recognized by The American Women in Radio and Television, The Associated Press/New York Spot News Award and United Press International/New York Broadcast Award.

Personal life

In September 1991, Gusoff married facial cosmetic surgeon Dr. Jon Turk.New York Times Wedding announcements: Carolyn Gusoff is engaged, January 13, 1991
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References

External links

Official siteCarolyn Gusoff, Alex Denis added to the WCBS/Ch. 2 lineup; Katie McGee moves to evenings
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