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Wayne Valley Grad Wins NY Emmy
Alice Gainer is now a CBS-TV reporter, but got her start at a station in Wayne.
A Wayne Valley graduate who started on the high school’s TV station has won a 2014 New York Emmy.
According to a report on NorthJersey.com, Alice Gainer recently won the award for a news piece she did on exploding manholes for CBS-TV news.
The 2000 Wayne Valley grad is a reporter and anchor for CBS, and co-anchors the 9 p.m. news on its sister station, WLNY-TV 10/55, the report said. Before moving to CBS about a year ago, the 31-year-old reporter worked for Fox 5 NY, and for eight years at News 12 New Jersey, it said.
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During college, Gainer worked at Fordham University’s radio station WFUV, but according to NorthJersey.com it was as a staffer at Valley’s monthly cable access channel “V” where she really developed a love for television journalism.
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