Greg Cergol

Long Island Correspondent

Updated 6:28 PM EST, Wed, Nov 11, 2009

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Greg Cergol joined WNBC 4 as a Long Island correspondent in April 1999. Based at the station’s Long Island news bureau in Plainview, Cergol has provided in-depth reports on many headline-making stories in the community including immigration and undocumented workers; the priest sex abuse scandal; school budget thefts; and the plight of the homeless. He has reported extensively on the local impact of the war in Iraq, including the emotional saga of Long Island Vietnam amputees reaching out to help their brothers and sisters in arms who also lost limbs in Iraq.

The Queens native’s work has also extended beyond the Long Island area. He reported on September 11th and its aftermath; traveled to Cuba to profile New Yorkers guarding terrorist prisoners there; filed a series of reports on a devastating earthquake in Turkey; stood side by side with crazed baseball fans at the 2003 Yankees-Marlins World Series and the 2004 Yankees-Red Sox American League Championship series; and anchored and wrote a one-hour documentary on the history of Yankee Stadium that garnered a New York State Broadcasters Association Award for Excellence.

Most of Cergol’s reporting career has focused on Long Island. He joined NBC 4 from News 12 Long Island, where he served as reporter and anchor for nine years. Prior to that, he worked at WGSM Radio in Melville (1983 to 1990), serving as news director, anchor and reporter. Cergol also spent time as a news editor for NBC Radio Network News (1988-89) and as a teaching assistant for the college TV news program, Long Island News Tonight. His early career as a broadcast journalist included stints as a reporter/anchor at WOW Radio in Omaha, Nebraska, and WBCS Radio in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

In 2005, Cergol was named “Long Island Journalist of the Year” by the Long Island Press Club and received the “Media Champion Award” from the Nassau-Suffolk Coalition for the Homeless. He has also been honored at Shea Stadium with the “General’s Award for Outstanding Performance” for his coverage of the US Army Reserves. Cergol has received two Radio Television News Directors Association Edward R. Murrow Awards, including one for his work on the NBC 4 documentary, “Save Our Sound.” He has garnered five New York Emmys, two Cable Aces, awards from the Long Island Press Club and Associated Press, as well as numerous FOLIO honors from the Long Island Fair Media Council. In 2008 Cergol received three FOLIO awards in the categories of “Continuing News Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast”, “Feature Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast,” and “Science, Health or Environment News.”

A graduate of Marquette University in Milwaukee, Cergol received a Bachelor’s Degree in Broadcast Communications. He is married and resides in Suffolk County, New York.

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