Claudine Ewing is the anchor of Channel 2 News at 5:30 at WGRZ-TV in Buffalo, New York.
Claudine's professional career started in radio news where she worked as a news anchor and reporter covering Western New York and Southern Ontario.
Claudine’s professional career started directly after graduating from Buffalo State College. She worked at WBEN radio where she quickly moved up from working overnights to the afternoon drive news anchor.
Her life motto is “Expect nothing, appreciate everything, keep grinding!”
Claudine is an Emmy winner.
Claudine earned a degree in Broadcast Journalism with Honors. In 2004, she received the Young Alumnus Achievement Award from her college alma mater.
Over the years, Claudine has won numerous awards and has been nominated and recognized for her outstanding work in Journalism.
In 2023, she received several Emmy nominations for her work as a news anchor, coverage of a mass shooting in Buffalo and the case of a man who was returned to prison over a clerical error.
Claudine is a winner of multiple NABJ Salute to Excellence awards, most recently for Spot News coverage of a White supremacists who killed Blacks in a grocery store. In 2017, she won for a story, ‘Preemie goes to College’ ir was about a little girl she followed from her premature birth until she graduated from high school.
Other awards include the 2023 NYS Broadcasters Association for Outstanding Public Affairs Program for commUNITY; Buffalo Spree Best Reporter (Broadcast); NFJC Community Healing award for community.
Past awards include Special Mention by the New York State Associated Press for General Excellence in Individual Reporting. In 2014, Claudine won a national award from the NABJ for a sports story - The Smart Football Scholar. A story on the rise of Penn State graduate John Urschel.
Claudine has earned several awards from the Associated Press for special news series and breaking news.
Some of Claudine’s memorable stories include revealing to the world that there was a female limbo performer worthy of the Guinness Record. Her story helped make a young girl’s dream come true. Claudine also reported on a family’s mission to have tougher state penalties for repeat child abusers. She followed the case to Albany and now there is Jay J’s law, named after an abused child.
Claudine is a member of the National Association for Black Journalists, Buffalo Association of Black Journalists. She is also proud to serve on the P.U.N.T. Pediatric Cancer Collaborative board and the Buffalo State College Alumni Association.
Claudine enjoys Bible reading, traveling across the world, live music, sporting events and spending time with family.
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