Pat Battle (born December 9, 1959) is an American journalist. Since 1996, she has been at WNBC-TV.
Early life
Patricia (nickname, "Pat") N. Battle was born December 9, 1959. Of African-American descent, she grew up in Neptune Township, New Jersey, where her mother was a member of the township committee and served as police commissioner. She graduated from Neptune High School in 1977, where she had been a cheerleader. Her first job was with the Asbury Park Press as a reporter.
Career
Battle won a 2005 New York Regional Emmy Award for Political Programming for her work on the U.S. presidential primary edition of WNBC-TV's What Matters.
She appeared as herself on the Netflix series, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and is set to appear in a second-season episode of Peacock's Girls5eva.
Personal life
Battle is a resident of Teaneck, New Jersey, and is married to Anthony Johnson, a reporter with WABC-TV, a competing New York City television station. In October 2010, she publicly revealed that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer and undergone a lumpectomy.
Filmography
Film
Television
See also
List of American print journalists
List of people from Teaneck, New Jersey
List of people from New York City
List of people from Philadelphia
List of television reporters
List of University of Maryland, College Park people
References
External links
1959 births
Place of birth missing (living people) 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American women writers American newspaper journalists Journalists from New Jersey Living people Television anchors from New York City Neptune High School alumni People from Neptune Township, New Jersey Mass media people from Teaneck, New Jersey Philadelphia television reporters American women non-fiction writers 20th-century American non-fiction writers 21st-century American non-fiction writers American women television journalists