Alice Gainer | |
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Born | Alice Gainer July 3, 1982 [citation needed] |
Nationality | American |
Education | Fordham University |
Occupation | Journalist |
Title | Anchor/Reporter |
Website | www |
Alice Gainer (born July 3, 1982) is an American anchor and reporter for WCBS-TV and WLNY-TV, New York. Previously, she co-anchored the News At Nine on CBS2's sister station WLNY, with Dick Brennan.[1] Prior to WCBS Gainer worked at WNYW Fox 5, New York and for eight years before that, worked as an Anchor/Reporter at News 12 New Jersey. She has also appeared on News 12 Westchester, CNN, Fox News Channel and Fox Business Happy Hour and Gainer also serves as a fill-in & substitute anchor for CBS 2 News At 5:00 & 11:00.
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Gainer graduated from Fordham University in 2004 with a degree in Communications: TV and Radio and a minor in Business Administration.[2] At Fordham she was an anchor for WFUV, the university's NPR affiliated radio station, and won a Gracie Award in the category "Individual Achievement for Best Anchor (Radio)".[3] She was also an anchor for the campus television station. After graduating Gainer worked for NPR affiliate WBGO radio.[4] and also for MetroNetworks WOR, WABC, and Air America Satellite Radio.[5] [6]
Gainer is the recipient of eight NY Emmy Awards for "Breaking/Spot News", "Crime News", and "Entertainment News" among other categories. She's been nominated more than a dozen times [7] times in the categories "LIVE- reporter", "Spot News", "Entertainment News", "Crime News" and "Health/Science". At the age of 25 and after only 2 years as a television reporter she was nominated for a New York Emmy for "On-Camera Achievement -Live Reporter". She was the recipient of a 2010 1st place Associated Press award for "Best Continuing Coverage". Other awards include a 1st place AP award for "Best Election Coverage" with the WBGO news team and a Public Radio News Directors Incorporated award. She's appeared in the movies "The Bourne Legacy" as an MSNBC anchor [8] "Delivery Man" and "The Week Of".[9] She also appeared as a reporter on the CBS show Bull. Gainer was also a principal actor in a New York Mega Millions commercial where she played a news anchor and has also appeared in several MTV commercials.[citation needed]
Gainer competed for the title of Miss New Jersey USA and placed in the top 15 for several years. She also held the title of Miss Somerset County 2006,[10] in the Miss America Organization. In high school, she was captain of the Varsity swim team and an all-county swimmer. She also played Varsity soccer. At Fordham, she was captain of the nationally competitive dance team.[11] On July 17, 2018, she posted on Twitter that she is engaged to her boyfriend. In 2019 she posted online that they were married.[12]
References
[edit]- ^ "Dick Brennan and Alice Gainer NEWS @ 9:00".
- ^ "WFUV Public Radio | About | WFUV Awards & Honors". Archived from the original on 2010-06-13. Retrieved 2010-06-16.
- ^ "The Gracies : 2004 Gracie Awards® Winners". Archived from the original on 2010-05-30. Retrieved 2010-06-16.
- ^ "Jazz88 FM - The World's Premier Jazz Radio Station, NYC and NJ". www.wbgo.org. Archived from the original on 2007-06-12.
- ^ https://www.linkedin.com/in/alicegainer
- ^ Larosa, Nicole (May 5, 2015). "Dick Brennan and Alice Gainer: News D". Fordham Magazine. Retrieved December 29, 2016.
- ^ "Alice Gainer". February 2022.
- ^ "Full cast and crew for The Bourne Legacy". IMDb. Retrieved 26 August 2012.
- ^ "The Week of (2018) - IMDb". IMDb.
- ^ http://www.geocities.com/missusamagice/njersey2006.html Archived September 18, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ https://www.linkedin.com/in/alicegainer
- ^ https://twitter.com/gainertv/status/1019374595705638913?lang=fi