Broadcaster

Mary Murphy, the daughter of Irish immigrants, is weekend news anchor and senior correspondent for New York’s Channel 11 News at Ten, part of the WB Network. During her 15-year career, the Queens-born Murphy has moved up the ranks from entry-level desk assistant to on-air reporter-winning three News Emmys and garnering more than a dozen other nominations for reporting on the World Trade Center bombing, the John Gotti mob trial, and most recently, for a thirty-minute special report on the crime of stalking. The Associated Press has honored Mary seven times for investigative and spot news reporting. 

In 1995, Mary received a national award from the American Women in Radio and Television for a mini-documentary she wrote and produced called Schindler, the Real Story, which featured interviews with local Holocaust survivors who had worked in the Schindler camps during World War II. 

Mary’s mother, Mary – who is also a Murphy by birth and hailed from County Galway, encouraged her eldest child to pursue a career in television journalism. Mary’s father, James, is a retired bus driver from County Mayo. They both instilled in Mary a love of Irish music. 

Mary covered Gerry Adams’s historic first trip to the United States. She co-hosted the St. Patrick’s Day Parade coverage for Channel 11 in 1994 and 1995, an assignment that’s been one of her greatest thrills. Aside from her professional commitment, Mary has done volunteer work for Catholic charities and the Catholic Big Sister organization, along with the March of Dimes. Mary is married to New York City Police Detective Tom Santino, and in January, she gave birth to their first child, Anthony James.