Inside TV News: PIX11’s Mary Murphy in Conversation with Magee Hickey
January 9, 2024 @ 10:30-11:45am
Mary Murphy, PIX11 News reporter in NYC, has focused on stories in all corners of her hometown during her award-winning journalism career. In 2021, she launched regular segments called “The Missing,” reporting on families seeking their loved ones who have disappeared. Her work helping to find multiple people was recognized with a 2023 NY Emmy Award when PIX11’s Creative Services team won the honor for Outstanding News Promotion of that segment. Thirty of her 32 Emmy Awards at the station are for reporting on significant events of our lifetime, including the opioid crisis, the September 11th terror attacks, the Black Sunday fire in 2005, and 1996 explosion of TWA Flight 800. Last July she covered the arrest of accused Gilgo Beach serial killer after a dozen years of reporting on the unsolved mystery. She reported extensively on the “Faces of the Pandemic,” as the COVID-19 crisis emerged in the US, helping viewers understand the science of coronavirus and telling the personal stories of survivors and people who succumbed to the virus. She was PIX11 News’s weekend anchor 1995 to 2009. In 2013 she launched the “Mary Murphy Mystery” segment, which looks at unsolved crimes and missing person cases. In this session, she will be in conversation with her PIX11 colleague, Magee, who has worked with every NY news station over her long career.