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Pat Battle
Born	Patricia N. Battle (1959-12-09) December 9, 1959 (age 65)
Occupation	Journalist
Spouse	Anthony Johnson

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

1. ^ Lewis, Evelyn Stryker (1998). Neptune and Shark River Hills (via Google Books), p. 88. Charlotte, North Carolina: Arcadia Publishing; ISBN 978-0-7524-0997-9; retrieved May 27, 2011.
2. Arsenau, Guy. "Weekends start early with N.J.'s Pat Battle", Inside Jersey, January 27, 2015. Accessed January 23, 2018. "A native of Neptune Township, Battle began her career as a reporter for the Asbury Park Press, in Asbury Park."
3. Paskin, Willa (April 4, 2005). "WNBC wins Gotham Emmys by a nose". Variety. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
4. White, Peter (April 6, 2022). "'Girls5Eva': Amber Ruffin, Heidi Gardner, Mario Cantone & Record Label-Owning Property Brothers Among Guest Cast For Season 2". Deadline. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
5. Pat Battle bio, nbcnewyork.com; accessed October 30, 2014.

External links

• Pat Battle at IMDb

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