Mary Murphy (Anchor) Bio, Age, Parents, PIX11 News, CBS2, Salary

Mary Murphy Biography

Mary Murphy is an American journalist and reporter who works as an Investigative reporter for PIX11 News.

She has worked at PIX11 during two, different phases of her career. In the 1980s, she spent five years working her way up from production assistant to reporter.

Mary was born in Queens, New York and has spent her entire broadcasting career in her hometown.

She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Queens College and was selected for an internship with WCBS TV in the 1980s.

Mary Murphy Age

Murphy’s year and date of birth are not known. We will update when we get the information.

Mary Murphy Parents

Murphy was born in Queens, New York. She is the daughter of Irish immigrants. Her mother, Mary, is from County Galway and her late father, James, hailed from County Mayo.

Her parents met in Rockaway Beach and initially settled in Woodside. Her father was a New York City bus driver.

Mary Murphy PIX11 News

Murphy has worked at PIX11 during two, different phases of her career. For the five years at PIX11 in the 1980s, she was working her way up from production assistant to reporter.

During this time, she produced some of the first, local TV stories on the AIDS crisis and was out on the streets covering the violence associated with the crack cocaine epidemic.

CBS 2

Later in 1986, CBS 2 hired her as a general assignment correspondent. Mary covered breaking news there for seven years, including months of coverage associated with the assassination of NYPD Officer, Edward Byrne.

She was the first New York television reporter to air the confession tapes of the suspects. She also reported live during the truck bombing of One World Trade Center in 1993.

Murphy won Emmy awards at CBS 2 for reporting on the John Gotti and Joel Steinberg trials.

Return to PIX11

In 1993, Murphy returned to PIX11, where she was given opportunities to anchor, produce documentaries, and continue to break stories.

In 1994, Mary interviewed the real people behind the Oscar-winning film, “Schindler’s List.” The project was honored with a national award from the American Women in Radio and Television.

While she was six months pregnant in 1995, Mary covered the visit of Pope John Paul II (now a saint!) to New Jersey and New York. The pope tapped Mary’s PIX 11 microphone when she asked him a question, and that’s a special memory.

She also covered his Mass at Giants Stadium in the pouring rain!

In 1996, she responded to the crash of TWA Flight 800, off Center Moriches, Long Island. 230 passengers and crew members bound for Paris from JFK perished.

In July 2001, Mary was the lead reporter on the Emmy-winning newscast that marked the fifth anniversary of the disaster.

Shortly before the fifth anniversary of 9/11 in 2006, Murphy visited a field in County Cork, Ireland; where a New York-based nurse had planted 343 trees in honor of the firefighters who gave their lives responding to the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

In 2012, she traveled with Dan Mannarino to Rome to cover the elevation of New York’s Archbishop, Timothy Michael Dolan, to Cardinal.

In 2014, Murphy produced a six-part series called “Heroin, A to Z”. It looked at the explosion of heroin use and fatalities among young people in the middle class.

When she is not working, she likes watching movies and playing tennis. Murphy plays ladies’ doubles, and her community team won four first-place championships during the time she played with them.