Annika Pergament is the Senior Business Anchor for Spectrum News NY1 in the United States.

She received a Bachelor's degree in history from Duke University and her Master's in Journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.

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Pergament began her broadcast career in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, at the CBS affiliate WBTW-TV.

As a reporter for NY1 in 1994, Pergament covered politics and later City Hall and the Manhattan beat.

In 2001, she joined WCBS-TV as the consumer reporter for the station’s Troubleshooter segment and was a regular contributor to the Early Show.

Pergament rejoined NY1 in 2002 as Business Anchor and producer of the Fortune Business Report.

From 2002-2009, she also worked as a guest anchor on Court TV, and later TruTV’s In Session, hosting Newsbreaks and live trial coverage.

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She has also had a reoccurring role as a news anchor on HBO’s The Sopranos and has appeared in Gossip Girl, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Laws of Attraction, Head of State, Maid in Manhattan, Analyze That, and The Yards.

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