Emily Putnam is a Rochester-area native who joined the News10NBC team in October 2017 as an executive assistant to the vice president and general manager. In March 2019 she started helping out behind the scenes producing the station's weekend public affairs show (and the longest-running public affairs show in Rochester), Rochester In Focus. By July 2019 she was in front of the camera hosting full RIF segments, and she officially joined the news team as a reporter and multimedia journalist in June 2020.
In her first year reporting, Emily has covered (among other things) the local fallout from the global coronavirus pandemic and the emergency vaccination efforts thereafter, the civil unrest following Daniel Prude's death that catapulted Rochester to the center of a national conversation about racism and police brutality, and the historic 2020 presidential election.
In her first year reporting, Emily has covered (among other things) the local fallout from the global coronavirus pandemic and the emergency vaccination efforts thereafter, the civil unrest following Daniel Prude's death that catapulted Rochester to the center of a national conversation about racism and police brutality, and the historic 2020 presidential election.
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Emily is a trained actor who has appeared at a host of local, regional, and off-Broadway theatres. When she’s not reporting on-air, you’ll probably find her performing on-stage. After graduating from Webster Thomas High School, Emily earned her bachelor’s degree in drama from Ithaca College. In December 2020, Emily earned her master's degree in communications with a specialization in journalism innovation from the Newhouse School at Syracuse University. Before coming to News10NBC, she managed social media, marketing, and PR campaigns for non-profits and arts clients.
She lives in the South Wedge neighborhood of Rochester with her boyfriend Ricky and their German shepherd rescue pup, Bowie. If you have a story idea, or you want to know more about News10NBC, send Emily an email at eputnam@whec.com. |
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Interview w/ Eastman Opera Theatre directors Timothy Long and Ian Silverman, January 2020.
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I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being. - Oscar Wilde
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