Margie Reedy

Margie Reedy has been a television journalist for 25 years. For the last seven years, she was the host of “NewsNight,” an hour-long news interview program on New England Cable News. On “NewsNight,” she led nightly debates among experts from a vast array of arenas, including politics, law, and academia on the topical stories that drive the news. Her goal was to probe beyond surface answers and to debate complex issues in a logical and meaningful way. She has been awarded the Scripps Howard Foundation National Journalism Award, the Associated Press Regional Award for Best Public Affairs Program, and the Radio and Television News Director’s Association Award for Public Affairs. Reedy began her career as a reporter and weekend anchor at KVUE-TV in Austin, Texas while a college senior. Later as an anchor and reporter at WDIV in Detroit, Michigan and at WHDH in Boston, she was responsible for anchoring evening broadcasts and special programming, reporting and producing stories in the field, broadcasting live coverage of major events and breaking news, and assisting in the writing and editing of the nightly news program. At the Shorenstein Center, she is producing a documentary on cable news coverage of the Iraq war and the competition among the cable networks and whether it’s driving them to adopt an ideological voice to gain viewers. Margie also taught a study group focusing on how the media works and how to work in the media.