Susan Wornick
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Susan Wornick has been an anchor of WCVB-TV's Midday newscast since February 1989. In January 2006, Wornick was named a member of Team 5 Investigates, WCVB's investigative unit. She has also served as NewsCenter 5's consumer reporter and as a general assignment reporter. Wornick joined the station in 1981.
Wornick has won many awards while at WCVB. In 2005, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences recognized her with the Silver Circle Award for twenty-five years of service to WCVB and the community.In 1991, she received the prestigious Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association (ABA) for a news series she reported called Punishment Without A Crime. The series examined a Massachusetts law which allows the imprisonment of innocent women with drug or alcohol problems. It focused statewide attention on the insufficient number of Massachusetts state treatment facilities for women, including teenagers, who for lack of proper treatment facilities, often end up in a prison cell.Wornick has also received two regional Emmy Awards and a number of other honors while at WCVB. In 1984, she shared an Emmy Award for the coverage of the breaking story surrounding a verdict in a controversial trial, and in 1983, she shared an Emmy for the NewsCenter 5 coverage of the crash of a World Airways plane at Boston's Logan Airport.In June, 1985, she gained national prominence by refusing to reveal a news source. Wornick was held in contempt of court and narrowly averted a jail sentence.Wornick was an anchor and reporter at WHDH Radio in Boston from 1979 to 1981. She also worked for WBZ Radio in Boston as an anchor/reporter from 1978 to 1979. During this time, she won several Associated Press and United Press International Awards for radio journalism.Born and raised in Natick, Wornick now resides in Needham. She is a graduate of Boston's Emerson College, where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree. In 1988, Wornick was honored by the State Department of Youth Services for her volunteer work with troubled teenagers. In 1995, she was recognized with an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters Degree from Becker College in Worcester, MA.
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Wornick has won many awards while at WCVB. In 2005, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences recognized her with the Silver Circle Award for twenty-five years of service to WCVB and the community.In 1991, she received the prestigious Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association (ABA) for a news series she reported called Punishment Without A Crime. The series examined a Massachusetts law which allows the imprisonment of innocent women with drug or alcohol problems. It focused statewide attention on the insufficient number of Massachusetts state treatment facilities for women, including teenagers, who for lack of proper treatment facilities, often end up in a prison cell.Wornick has also received two regional Emmy Awards and a number of other honors while at WCVB. In 1984, she shared an Emmy Award for the coverage of the breaking story surrounding a verdict in a controversial trial, and in 1983, she shared an Emmy for the NewsCenter 5 coverage of the crash of a World Airways plane at Boston's Logan Airport.In June, 1985, she gained national prominence by refusing to reveal a news source. Wornick was held in contempt of court and narrowly averted a jail sentence.Wornick was an anchor and reporter at WHDH Radio in Boston from 1979 to 1981. She also worked for WBZ Radio in Boston as an anchor/reporter from 1978 to 1979. During this time, she won several Associated Press and United Press International Awards for radio journalism.Born and raised in Natick, Wornick now resides in Needham. She is a graduate of Boston's Emerson College, where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree. In 1988, Wornick was honored by the State Department of Youth Services for her volunteer work with troubled teenagers. In 1995, she was recognized with an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters Degree from Becker College in Worcester, MA.Click here to see where WCVB-TV anchors and reporters are appearing in your community. 
