Kristin Thorne is an Emmy award-winning reporter. She has received a regional Edward R. Murrow Award and the Pennsylvania Associated Press Broadcasters Association’s best series award. She also has won two Telly awards, which honor outstanding local television programming.

Kristin is a freelance reporter for News 12 Westchester based in Yonkers, New York, News 12 New Jersey in Edison, New Jersey and News 12 Connecticut in Norwalk, Connecticut.

She received her master’s in broadcast journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She obtained her undergraduate degree from Georgetown University where she majored in American Studies and minored in Spanish.

Kristin’s love for journalism began in high school. She spent three years working on the student newspaper as a staff writer, front-page editor and then editor-in-chief.

Upon entering Georgetown, Kristin decided to branch into broadcast. She first worked in radio as a production assistant for talk show host Laura Ingraham. She worked at MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews and NBC’s Dateline.

She landed her first job as an on-air reporter in the number one market in the country working for several cable stations just outside New York City. She then served as the York Bureau Chief for abc27 WHTM in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. For two years she was solely responsible for all news coming out of York County where more than 416,000 people reside. She tackled a variety of stories, ranging from breaking news to features. Kristin found all of her own stories, coordinated interviews and kept track of all ongoing investigations and issues. She went live up to four times everyday and juggled several stories daily.

Kristin is passionate about her job and about the field of journalism. She thrives in live, breaking news situations but also enjoys working on long-form features.

Kristin loves to tell people’s stories. She believes in using the power of broadcast to inspire people and to help them. The stories she is most proud of are not related to the high-profile interviews she has conducted, but when she has helped change the lives of regular viewers.

She takes pride in being an ethical reporter who challenges herself everyday to produce informative, well-crafted stories. She enjoys working with video and sound and believes broadcast news stories can be works of art. Many of her pieces have won awards from the National Press Photographers Association.