Emily Putnam is a Rochester, NY native who joined the News10NBC team in October 2017. She started out as an executive assistant to the vice president and general manager, helping out behind the scenes and co-producing the station's weekend public affairs show, Rochester In Focus (the longest-running public affairs show in Rochester). It wasn't long before 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. About a year later she was promoted to anchor, and now she anchors News10NBC Today on Saturday and Sunday starting at 6 a.m., and fills in anchoring weekday mornings from 4:30 to 7 a.m.
Emily began her journalism career in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. In her first year reporting, she covered the local fallout from the global Covid crisis and the emergency vaccination efforts thereafter, the protests and civil unrest following Daniel Prude's death that catapulted her hometown to the center of a national conversation about racism and police brutality, and the historic 2020 presidential election (among other things).
When she’s not reporting on-air, she's probably performing on-stage. Emily is a trained actor who has appeared at a host of local, regional, and off-Broadway theaters. She proudly serves on the Board of Directors of The Company Theatre, Rochester's newest non-profit performing arts collective with a commitment to honoring tradition through innovation. After graduating from Webster Thomas High School, she earned her bachelor’s degree in drama from Ithaca College. Then in December 2020, she received 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 local non-profits and arts clients.
Emily lives in the South Wedge neighborhood of Rochester with her partner Ricky and their German shepherd mix rescue pup, Bowie. If you have a story idea, send Emily an email at eputnam@whec.com.
Emily began her journalism career in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. In her first year reporting, she covered the local fallout from the global Covid crisis and the emergency vaccination efforts thereafter, the protests and civil unrest following Daniel Prude's death that catapulted her hometown to the center of a national conversation about racism and police brutality, and the historic 2020 presidential election (among other things).
When she’s not reporting on-air, she's probably performing on-stage. Emily is a trained actor who has appeared at a host of local, regional, and off-Broadway theaters. She proudly serves on the Board of Directors of The Company Theatre, Rochester's newest non-profit performing arts collective with a commitment to honoring tradition through innovation. After graduating from Webster Thomas High School, she earned her bachelor’s degree in drama from Ithaca College. Then in December 2020, she received 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 local non-profits and arts clients.
Emily lives in the South Wedge neighborhood of Rochester with her partner Ricky and their German shepherd mix rescue pup, Bowie. If you have a story idea, send Emily an email at eputnam@whec.com.
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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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