Marvin Scott Biography and Wiki
Marvin Scott is an American award-winning journalist currently working as the station’s senior correspondent and anchor/host of the weekly issues-oriented program “PIX11 News Close Up”. He joined WPIX in 1980 and he has experience of over 50 years in both print and broadcast mediums. Marvin has served on the Police Commissioner’s Executive Media Committee. He is a Trustee of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Awards Chair of the New York Chapter, Bard (Vice President) of the Friars Club, and former President of the Television-Radio Working Press Association.
Marvin Scott Age
Marvin was born on March 10, 1944, in Bronx, New York, United States of America. He is 76 years old as of 2020 and celebrates his birthday on 10th March of every year.
Marvin Scott Education
Scott is a graduate of New York University. There is no much information about his educational background despite him being honored by various institutions for his work as a journalist.
Marvin Scott Height
Scott stands at a height of 6 feet 2 inches (1.87 m). However, information regarding his other body measurements is still under review.
Marvin Scott Family | Parents
Scott’s information regarding his parents and siblings is currently not available. It will be updated as soon as possible as it will be available.
Marvin Scott Wife and Children
Scott was married to his first wife Joan Scott Pollack but the couples later separated. In 2004, he married his second wife Lorri Gorman. He is the father of two adult children, Steven and Jill.
Marvin Scott Salary
Marvin as the WPIX senior correspondent and anchor/host of the weekly issues-oriented program “PIX11 News Close Up” earns an estimated salary ranging from $158,793 to $173,452 per year.
Marvin Scott Net Worth
Scott is an American award-winning journalist, anchor, producer, and reporter who has an estimated net worth of $2 million.
Marvin Scott WPIX | PIX 11, New York
Marvin is a member of the New York State Broadcasters Hall of Fame and recipient of 11 prestigious Emmy awards for journalistic achievement. Since joining WPIX in 1980, he has served in numerous limits: as an anchor, reporter, host, and producer. Marvin is as of now the station’s senior correspondent and anchor/host of the week by week issues-arranged program “PIX11 News Close Up”.
A veteran columnist with more than 50 years of involvement with both print and broadcast mediums, Marvin’s experience incorporates nearby, public and global tasks. He recently anchored “Motel Midday Edition” and “USA Tonight Weekend,” broadly partnered broadcasts created by WPIX’s Independent Network News. For quite a while, Scott was co-anchor of the daily “WB11 News at Ten.” He has co-hosted uncommon projects, including the Emmy grant-winning “Operation SAIL ’92: An American Celebration,” “Activity Homecoming” and various Columbus and Puerto Rican Day marches.
Preceding joining WPIX, Marvin was an anchor/reporter at WNEW-TV (presently WNYW-TV). He held past situations as anchor, correspondent, and producer at CNN, Mutual Broadcasting System, and WABC-TV. In the print media, he was an element author for the New York Herald Tribune and a contributing proofreader to Parade Magazine. Marvin started his media profession as a youngster, pursuing flames and reports with his camera. At 14 years old, he offered a photograph of a seething fire to the New York Daily News.
Marvin’s tasks have taken him from the bleeding edges of Iraq, Cambodia, and the Middle East, to the thruways of the U.S. South, where he covered social liberties fights with Dr. Martin Luther King. He spent Christmas 2004, 2006, 2008, and 2009 with New York fighters in Iraq and 2013 in Afghanistan. He has interviewed six American presidents. Marvin’s coverage of the Congressional Whitewater hearings won him an Emmy for “Remarkable Political Reporting.”
A veteran reporter of the U.S. space program, Marvin has seen the dispatch of various Gemini, Apollo, and Space Shuttle flights. Marvin has pulled 9 G’s in an F – 16 stream, hovered underneath the Long Island Sound in an atomic assault submarine and rang the end ringer of the New York Stock Exchange.
He is the creator of “From my perspective: A Reporter’s Intrepid Journey,” a collection of 26 of the more exceptional accounts of the assessed 15,000 he has covered over the past 50 years. Marvin is likewise an accomplished picture taker whose work has been shown in New York displays.
Dynamic in community issues, Marvin has served on the Police Commissioner’s Executive Media Committee. He is a Trustee of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Awards Chair of the New York Chapter, Bard (Vice President) of the Friars Club, and previous President of the Television-Radio Working Press Association.
Marvin Scott Awards
It was “Exceptional Entertainment Programming” that won him an Emmy in 2006 for his edifying interview with the lord of comedy, Jerry Lewis. Notwithstanding the seven successes, Marvin has gotten in excess of 40 Emmy designations. During visits to the Middle East, he interviewed Golda Meier, Yitzhak Rabin, and Yasser Arafat, among others. In New York, he has covered each civic chairman since John Lindsay.
Associated Press Broadcasters awarded his reporting of the Three Mile Island atomic plant mishap, alongside two AP praises for “Exceptional Interview.” The New Jersey Working Press Association introduced him the “Terry Anderson Award for Professionalism in Journalism,” the honor named for the columnist held hostage in Lebanon. Marvin’s work has been referred to by the American Bar Association, Aviation Space Writers Association, New York’s Finest Foundation, and the Cops Foundation.
Marvin has been introduced in the Bronx Walk of Fame, and the Bronx Jewish Hall of Fame. He is a beneficiary of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor for Distinguished Americans. In 2001 he was enlisted into the Silver Circle of the NY Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and in 2017 he was drafted into the coveted Gold Circle.