By Variety | Created at 2024-12-05 18:19:50 | Updated at 2024-12-25 21:34:43
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The Writers Guild of America East is set to present Kathy McGee, an Emmy Award-winning writer and producer at WCBS-TV, with the Richard B. Jablow Award for Devoted Service to 2025 WGA Awards.
The 77th edition of the annual event will be held at New York’s Edison Ballroom on Feb. 15.
McGee served as a WGAE council member from 2014 to 2019 until she became the vice president between 2019 and 2021. She was vice president of the broadcast/cable/streaming news sector from 2022 to 2024.
A member of the WGAE since 1997, McGee writes stories on theater and cultural arts for WCBS-TV’s 5 p.m., 6 p.m., 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. weekday newscasts. She specifically covers Broadway, having co-produced the “At The Tonys” special that airs every June on CBS. She has also served as shop leader at WCBS-TV since 2006 and is a member of the bargaining committee for CBS contracts.
McGee is a member of WGA East‘s committee for Inclusion and Equity, the WGAE Activities Committee, the WGAE Black Writers Salon and is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists.
“I began my broadcast news career nearly 40 years ago and am proud to have spent the last two decades in solidarity with members of the WGA East advocating for journalists and storytellers while encouraging the next generation of union leaders,” McGee said.
WGA East president Lisa Takeuchi Cullen added: “I can think of no one more deserving of the Jablow Award than my friend and colleague Kathy McGee. Over the many, crisis-filled years we worked side by side, Kathy never failed to lead with calm, compassion and curiosity.”
