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Kristin Thorne

Kristin Thorne

Kristin Thorne is a well-known American television personality who works as a reporter for WABC-TV Channel 7 Eyewitness News in New York. She joined the station in January 2012 but prior to that, she was a reporter at News 12 Westchester. Again before that, she worked at WHTM-TV ABC 27 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,. Kristin has shown up on national morning news projects including ABC’s Good Morning America and CBS The Early Show. She is likewise a standard in-studio visitor on 103.9FM LI News Radio.[5][6]

Education and Early Life

Kristin graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. between in 2004 and she also earned her Master's degree in broadcast journalism from the prestigious Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 2005. She is the recipient of an Emmy Award and has received numerous Emmy nominations.[2]

Career

Kristin Thorne is currently a Long Island correspondent for WABC-TV's Eyewitness News. Before joining WABC, she has worked as a reporter and Bereau Chief at ABC 27 WHTM between September 2007 and September 2009 after which she left for News 12 Westchester. She was a reporter at Westchester for 1 year and 7 months (Oct 2009 to April, 2011).

She has also worked as a Freelance Reporter WBCS-TV between March 2011 and January 2012.

[3] She announced in January when she was leaving WCBS for Channel 7 in 2012 as the Long Island reporter.[4]

To all my loyal viewers: Friday was my last day at WCBS.

You will see me pop up on the air in the next week though on a different station in the NYC area.

I will tell you the big news once I get settled.

You know, I don't want to jinx anything.

They're expecting big things from me at this new station so I hope you will tune in!

Kristin Thorne joined WABC-TV in 2012 and as a columnist for WABC, Kristin looks into, pitches and creates her own accounts. She’s known for her capacity to get select data and substance. She directed a months-in length examination concerning casting ballot anomalies on Long Island, which incited a solid network reaction. In 2014, she went to the greatest security jail in upstate New York to meet a detainee who claimed his honesty in a multi decade-old sex violation.

Kristin prides herself on delivering stories which impact positive change.

Her selective meeting with the mother of a young person slaughtered by the savage road pack MS-13 provoked a police examination and the disclosure of a few covered bodies.

Kristin’s insightful anecdote about a pet association selling sick dog constrained creature assurance specialists to close down the gathering the following day.

Her elite tale about a man needed for lascivious lead brought about the man’s capture under 24 hours after the fact.

Awards

Kristin has been honored with many awards for her stories including an Emmy Award, a regional Edward R. Murrow Award, several awards from the Associated Press Broadcasters Association and the Society of Professional Journalists. She's received five Emmy Award nominations and four Folio Awards, which honor the best in Long Island journalism. In 2017, Kristin was named "Woman of the Year" by a prestigious New York City area business network.

Personal Life

Throne, when she's not busy working, enjoys taking dance class, studying Spanish, and traveling. Kristin loves being involved with the Long Island community. She is on the leadership council of Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Long Island and volunteers with the Society of St. Vincent de Paul and Little Shelter Animal Rescue and Adoption Center.

Marriage

She is married to her longtime boyfriend, Brian.

The couple who have really maintained their relationship currently live happily on Long Island together with their three children, James, Vivienne and Olivia and their “home police”, Corgi Max.

Social Media

She has over 2k followers with 232 posts on her Instagram account, over 9k followers on Twitter and 12.7 followers on Facebook. [7][8][9]

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