Ruschell Boone, an award-winning reporter and anchor for New York City TV station NY1, has died. She was 48.
The Emmy-Award winning journalist, who spent more than two decades working at the news channel, passed away on Sunday evening.
She is survived by her sons Jackson and Carter as well as her husband, Todd.
Who was Ruschell Boone?
Ruschell Boone was a Jamaican-born reporter and journalist based in New York City.
Boone was born in Kingston, Jamaica. She immigrated to the Bronx in 1986 when she was 11, where she recalled being bullied for her Jamaican accent.
She lived in a blended family with her mother Faithlyn (Swaby) and stepfather Duke Scott.
Ruschell Boone earned a degree in accounting from City University of New York (CUNY) Baruch College.
Although she picked accounting to ensure a good living, she discovered her passion for journalism in her senior year when she took over a college radio segment for a missing guest.
Boone’s academic counselor tried to dissuade her from a career change, saying that it was too late for her to change paths and that she did not “fit the mold”.
Career
Working in cable television news since 1998, Ruschell Boone was a business news associate for CNBC and then an associate producer and assignment editor for CNN. She joined NY1 in 2002.
As a reporter for NY1, she covered breaking stories such as the 2016 pressure-cooker bombing in Manhattan and the 2016 presidential election.
She became a general assignment reporter for NY1’s Live at Ten newscast in 2018.
In 2019, Boone was nominated for three New York Emmy Awards for news reporting and work on NY1’s talk shows, and in 2020 she was nominated again as a live reporter.
Awards
New York Press Club Award for Best Feature Reporting – 2013.
New York Association of Black Journalists award for Best Spot News Reporting – 2014.
City & State list of Queens Most Influential Leaders – 2016, 2019, 2020.
Queens District Attorney’s William Tucker Garvin Public Service Award – 2019.
Ruschell Boone cause of death
Ruschell Boone died Sunday due to complications related to the cancer, according to NY1. The station described Boone as “a friend and mentor to many.”
“A mother, a wife, a daughter, a sister, a journalist, a Jamaican-American, a true New Yorker, Ruschell leaves behind a rich and loving legacy for her family, her friends and her city,” the station said in a touching tribute.
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