Polly’s significant professional experience includes conceiving and executing original programming, most recently as both Executive Producer and a Correspondent on a pilot for PBS that was recently picked up. Recent work has also appeared on MSNBC’s documentary block, and ABC News 20/20 and PrimeTime.

She is also editor and publisher of a hyperlocal news website, the Loop.

As the investigative reporter at WPIX TV in New York, her own weekly TV segment, Polly Wants an Answer, showcased her award winning, non-aggressive yet confrontational style of consumer advocacy. At WPIX, Polly managed the investigative team while developing, writing and producing investigative and consumer reports, and anchoring taped segments live on set.  Previously, Polly served as both an investigative and general assignment reporter at WWOR-TV, New York, where her work was honored with 14 New York Emmy awards in five years. Her original reporting included her innovative and often emulated franchise, Eat, Drink and Be Wary.

Earlier in her career, after gaining diverse television news experience behind the scenes in New York local news at WABC TV and WNEW TV, and at the early start-up of CNN in Atlanta, Polly began her on-camera reporting career in Hartford, Connecticut and Norfolk, Virginia. These assignments led her back to her native Washington, D.C., where she reported from Capitol Hill for over 100 local television stations throughout the United States. Entrepreneurial projects included the creation of a production company in Fremantle, Australia, to cover the America’s Cup yacht races for American television client stations, and a five-part series on Perestroika shot in the former USSR.

She has been a talk show guest (Montel Williams Show, Ananda) to discuss her work, and a featured panelist at IRE (Investigative Reporters and Editors) and RTNDA (Radio and Television News Directors) meetings. She is a member of New York’s Inner Circle of Journalists.

Polly earned her B.A. degree at Cornell University and completed two honors courses at the Poynter Institute for Journalism Studies. All of this was easy compared to running two New York City Marathons. Polly and her family live in Westchester County, New York.

 

Some pieces:

- A look at where the money really goes when you buy M&M's from some of the “candy kids” on the street. (watch video composite of this and other investigative pieces)  (read article)
 - One large school district “losing” millions of dollars. (read newspaper article) (read news editorial)
 - An airport valet parking lot that wasn’t. (read article)
 - A warning about the Staten Island Ferry before the fatal accident.
 -The highly controversial (read article) report on dog meat sales in one ethnic community.
 - A safety loophole in super-stretch limousines.
 - Catching the NYC school board wasting taxpayer money by leaving the lights on. (read article)
 - Polly also found a fake animal adoption agency (read article) and lifeguards at Rockaway Beach smoking pot while on duty. (read article)

.Memorable stories at WWOR included catching the NYC Mayor Guiliani running red lights and speeding (read article) (read second article).  Her original reporting included her innovative and often emulated franchise, Eat, Drink and Be Wary.