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 WNYW/FOX5’s Rosanna Scotto and Greg Kelly as awards presenters.
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Also serving as awards presenters are CBS New York’s Mary Calvi and Dick Brennan. 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, 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 Rosanna Scotto
Rosanna Scotto is the co-host of Good Day New York. She has been a member of WNYW-FOX 5 News since 1986.
Scotto began her career in television at WTBS, Ted Turner’s UHF television station in Atlanta, where she was a reporter for two local programs and an associate producer of the station’s evening newscast. She returned to her native New York in the early 1980s as a reporter for WABC’s “Good Morning New York,” which eventually became “Live with Regis and Kathie Lee.” After a year with “Good Morning New York” and “The Morning Show,” Scotto joined WABC-TV’s “Eyewitness News” as a reporter, where she remained until she joined FOX 5.
Having covered many major stories in the tri-state area, her assignments have also taken her to Israel, Rome and across the United States. As a reporter, she won an endless string of coveted assignments including the first exclusive interview with Diana Bianchi, the other woman in the Christie Brinkley divorce case, the Woody Allen/Mia Farrow child custody battle, the notorious “Preppie Murder Trial” and the trials of Joel Steinberg and the “Swiss Nanny.” Scotto also led FOX 5 news to the forefront in getting Marty Tankleff a new trial and was granted an exclusive interview with him in jail.
Scotto has won three Emmys for anchoring FOX 5 News at 10 and Good Day New York. She is the winner of the 1995 New York State Associated Press First Place Award for her report “New York Survival Guide””and also the winner of three other Associated Press First Place Awards, including two special Associated Press Award nominations.
Scotto has received a host of honors and awards for her community service work. She is a graduate of Catholic University and holds a bachelor’s degree in fine arts. She received an honorary doctorate from Mount St. Mary College in 2014. Born and raised in Brooklyn, Scotto lives in the New York area with her husband and their two children.
About Greg Kelly
Greg Kelly is back as the co-host of Good Day New York after anchoring the 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. news anchor from July 2012 to January 2013.
He joined Fox 5 in July 2008 as a co-host of Good Day New York.
Most recently, Kelly was an anchor and correspondent for the Fox News Channel (FNC) based in New York. Kelly joined FNC in 2002 and went on to serve as a White House correspondent from 2005-2007. He has also covered the war in Iraq extensively, including four long-term assignments in Baghdad. During the 2003 invasion, he was embedded with the U.S. Army’s 3rd Infantry Division, 2nd Brigade. He was the first television reporter to deliver live pictures of U.S. forces infiltrating Baghdad, as well as exclusive reports of the storming of Saddam Hussein’s presidential palace.
Prior to joining Fox News Channel, Kelly was a reporter for New York 1 News, where he covered New York City politics and the September 11th attacks. He started his career in journalism as an anchor and reporter for NewsChannel 34, the ABC affiliate in Binghamton, New York. Prior to this, Kelly spent nine years as a fighter pilot in the United States Marine Corps. He specialized in flying the AV-8B Harrier jet. During his military service he amassed 158 aircraft carrier landings and flew over Iraq in Operation Southern Watch, enforcing the United Nations-imposed “No-Fly Zone.” A licensed commercial pilot, he currently holds the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Marine Corps Reserves.
Kelly is a graduate of Fordham University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science.