CBS New York’s Mary Calvi & Dick Brennan Join Folio Awards Lineup
The biggest media event on Long Island is the Fair Media Council’s Folio Awards on April 22. This year’s event honors New York news icon Ernie Anastos with a Lifetime Achievement Award and features CBS New York’s Mary Calvi and WLNY’s Dick Brennan as awards presenters.
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Also serving as awards presenters are WNYW/FOX5’s Rosanna Scotto and Greg Kelly. Singer MarissaAnn, a Long Island high school student and contestant from NBC’s The Voice, will be performing the National Anthem.
The event is sponsored by Bethpage Federal Credit Union, Northwell Health, WeiserMazars LLP, Protiviti, Murphy Bartol & O’Brien, Hofstra University, Briarcliffe College and YMCA Long Island.
The Fair Media Council is one of the oldest, most successful media watchdog organizations in the country. A 501c3 nonprofit founded in 1979, FMC advocates for quality local news and works to create a media savvy society.
Tables, tickets and online journal ads for the Fair Media Council’s Folio Awards are on sale now. Download the mail-in form or purchase online. Please contact info@fairmediacouncil.org with questions, or call 516-224-1860, ext. 1.
About Mary Calvi
Mary Calvi co-anchors CBS 2 News This Morning and CBS 2 News At Noon with Chris Wragge.
Award-winning journalist Mary Calvi has provided live breaking news reports on a wide range of stories across the tri-state area. Calvi gained unprecedented access to the FBI’s underwater anti-terrorism team and reported from underwater. She actually found a missing grandmother lost in the Blackout of 2003. She also traveled to Rome to cover the events surrounding Pope John Paul II. Calvi had also provided coverage on the attacks at the World Trade Center, in 2001 and in 1993.
Calvi’s credits include six Emmy awards, including two for her live breaking news coverage, and one for an in-depth series on sexual pedophiles, “Predator Next Door.”
Calvi has been honored for her writing at the New York Festival’s World Media Awards. She also earned a National ACE Award for Excellence in Journalism, a Clarion Award for Excellence in Reporting, and the ACIM Award for Excellence in Community Service.
She joined WCBS-TV in 2002 from News 12 Westchester where she served as anchor and assistant news director. She also worked with News 12 Long Island and served as a national correspondent for USA Networks. She began her career in New York in radio.
Calvi graduated magna cum laude from the S.I. Newhouse School at Syracuse University with a degree in journalism. A native of Westchester County, Calvi lives in her hometown with her husband and their three children.
About Dick Brennan
Dick Brennan joined WCBS-TV in 2012 as an anchor and reporter. Brennan also co-anchors WLNY-TV 10/55’s News at Nine weekdays with Alice Gainer. Brennan previously worked as an anchor/reporter at Fox 5 in New York since 2001.
An award-winning journalist, Brennan has been honored numerous times for his reporting, including an Emmy for CBS 2’s coverage of Superstorm Sandy.
During his nearly 20 years of reporting he has covered several presidential campaigns and also chronicled the battles for New York City Mayor and New York State Governor.
Brennan has also broadcast from around the world, including the war in Iraq, and recently reported from Bethlehem and Jerusalem as he followed Pope Francis’s on his trip to the Middle East.
Throughout his career, he has covered a variety of breaking news stories including the 9/11 tragedy, Hurricane Katrina, Newtown shootings, and the launch of SpaceX at Cape Canaveral.
Brennan grew up in Queens and graduated from Fordham University in the Bronx.
Brennan has played the role of a reporter in several television shows, including episodes of “Sex and the City” and “24.” He lives in New York with his wife and two daughters.