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Liz's career has not only spanned more than two decades at CBS 6; it has also covered a wide variety of assignments. She was one of the pioneers of what's widely held to be the first all-woman newscast in the 1970's. In the mid-70's, she became the first woman reporter allowed into the New York Yankee locker room after the Supreme Court ruled it should be open to women reporters.

Her political reporting also includes the area's first transatlantic satellite remote in 1980, as she covered the inauguration of Menands native George Deukmajian as Governor of California. Since then, she has covered Presidential inaugurations, Congressional transitions, the New Hampshire Primary, National Political Conventions,  along with international stories that have taken her to Germany, Italy, and Spain. One of the most emotionally and physically demanding stories Liz has covered in her long career was her weeklong trip to Skopje, Macedonia in the Spring of 1999. She and co-anchor Brad Holbrook brought back the horror and suffering of the Kosovo refugees in conjunction with a CBS 6 campaign to raise both awareness and relief funds.

Some of Liz's other favorite assignments include covering a Papal Visit in 1997; an award-winning report on Space Camp in conjunction with John Glenn's second trip into space; a cameo appearance on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns; the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics; annual Opening Days at the Saratoga Racecourse; and a week at the North Pole with the Flying 109th of the Stratton Air Base for a series of reports on their scientific support missions on the icecaps.

Liz has won numerous awards for her reporting including a prestigious Edward R. Murrow  award for a half-hour documentary, "Killer Flu", and a New York Emmy for her news series on Audrey Santo, a young girl assigned miraculous powers.  She has had four other Emmy nominations, along with two prestigious NYS Associated Press Broadcast awards for General Excellence in Reporting (1993 and 1999).    In addition, she has captured AP Broadcast Awards for sports reporting, best interview, environmental reporting, and documentary.  She has also won three NYS Broadcasters' Association awards (1994 best public affairs series and 1999 best commentary and 2000 for best feature); and a national Eclipse Award nomination for her coverage of the Saratoga Race Course. She also is the recipient of the New York State Air National Guard's top reporting honor, the Marguerite Higgins Award for her trip to Greenland.


She has taken a host of local honors, including 100 Women of Excellence, 2000 Media Person of the Year from the Women's Press Club, Distinguished Alumni Award from U-Albany, SUNY Honor Roll, the Women of Excellence Award in the Professions from the Albany-Colonie Regional Chamber of Commerce; along with awards from the Mohawk Pathways Girl Scouts, the Schenectady Girls Club, the Women's Business Council, and the American Association of University Women. Liz has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Empire State Youth Orchestra since 1990. She also hosted the Muscular Dystrophy Association Telethon since 1986 and is a former campaign chair for the Schenectady United Way.

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