Carolyn Gusoff

Carolyn Gusoff is an Emmy Award winning broadcast  journalist and is currently working as an on-air reporter at WCBS-TV  in New York City covering the Long Island beat.  She comes to CBS2 after three years at  Fox5 WNYW where she  often covered  the lead story of the day on Good Day New York. Prior to that, she was with WNBC  for 15 years.  In addition to her reporting role as Long Island Bureau Chief, she co-anchored the station’s top-rated Saturday and Sunday morning program “Weekend Today in New York” for five years. Carolyn has covered some of the most high profile news stories in New York City and is best known as a trusted, consistent and caring voice of Long Island’s concerns.

Her reporting over the last two decades includes some of the biggest stories of our time: the terror attacks of 9-11, the NYC transit strike, the NYC blackout and the massacre on the Long Island Railroad.  More recently, she has reported live on the “Occupy Wall Street” protests, the Long Island drug store massacre, the “Ground Zero” Mosque and the Dominique Strauss-Kahn criminal case. She was one of  the first reporters on the scene at  three commercial jetliner crashes  including TWA Flight 800 and American Airlines Flight 587. During the Blizzard of ’96, Gusoff reported for 36 hours straight on the historic storm’s toll and has covered nearly every major weather event to strike the New York area since.

Gusoff came to NBC from News 12 Long Island where she was credited for in-depth  coverage of  such national stories as the kidnapping of Katie Beers, the Tankleff murders and the Amy Fisher/Joey Buttafuoco scandal. She also covered the police/crime beat, courts, the United Nations  during the Persian Gulf conflict, and national political conventions. Gusoff also worked as primary fill-in anchor for the nation’s first 24-hour regional news network. Her broadcasting began with positions as anchor and reporter for the ABC affiliate,  WEVU-TV,  in Fort Myers, Florida. She has written for the New York Times, Newsday, and is a frequent opinion page contributor and Internet blogger. She has survived cancer and working motherhood (so far) and speaks publicly with humor about both challenges.

Her many honors include two New York Emmy Awards and nine New York Emmy nominations. In  2004, she was awarded a New York Emmy Award for On-Camera Performance/General Assignment Reporting for the Mepham Hazing Scandal. In April 2013, Gusoff received five FOLIO awards for her Continuing Coverage of Hurricane Sandy,  Health News,  Affordable Housing News,  Energy Trends  and Tax Accountability. She has garnered dozens of Long Island Fair Media Council FOLIO awards in categories ranging from Best Blog and Feature Reporting to Investigative Journalism and seven first-place Society of Professional Journalists/Press Club of Long Island awards. Carolyn has also been recognized by The American Women in Radio and Television, The Associated Press/New York Spot News Award and United Press International/New York Broadcast Award.

Gusoff holds a Master of Science Degree in Journalism from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Government and English from Cornell University, where she was Editor-in Chief of the Cornellian and a U.S.Congressional intern for then Senator Joe Biden and U.S Senator Alfonse D’Amato. She is currently a Cornell Alumni Admissions Ambassador and devotes much of her time in leadership roles to charitable causes and local community organizations. She has emcee’ed  events for  The American Heart Association, The American Red Cross, The American Cancer Society , The Princess Grace Foundation, Northshore University Hospital, and The Association of Fundraising Professionals, to name just a few.

Carolyn has authored the book, “Buried Memories: Katie Beers’ Story,” a January 2013 Titletown release. It is a collaboration with Katie Beers, who survived a highly publicized 1992 kidnapping.

Carolyn  was born in New York City and lives in Nassau County with her husband and their two children.