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Jay Dow
Jay Dow is a two-time Emmy Award-winning journalist who joined CBS 2 in 2002. He reports regularly for the station's morning, noon, and evening newscasts.
Dow has covered many major stories over the last several years. While reporting for CBS2 News This Morning, he provided extensive coverage of the housing and financial crisis. Dow also covered President Obama's historic rise to the White House, and the scandal that brought down former New York governor Eliot Spitzer.
Dow's reporting responsibilities run the spectrum…from politics, crime, weather – and everything in between. He traveled to Houston for that city's mass evacuation in the wake of hurricane Rita in 2005, and to New Jersey's western border to cover severe flooding along the Delaware River in 2006. He also covered the resignation of New Jersey Governor James McGreevey, and ex-NBA star Jayson Williams' manslaughter trial.
Just months after arriving at CBS 2, Dow led the station's coverage of the Faheem Williams fatal child abuse case…which triggered major reform within New Jersey's Division of Youth and Family Services.
Since joining CBS 2, Dow has earned wide recognition for his work. He won his first Emmy Award for outstanding breaking news coverage of the 2003 New York City blackout, and again in 2007 for coverage of a fatal fire in the Bronx that devastated two African families. Dow is also the recipient of four Emmy Award nominations. In 2003, the Harlem YMCA honored Dow with its Black Achievers in Industry award. He also received a second place Public Affairs award from the New York Association of Black Journalists for a profile of a local school district's alternative curriculum program.
Before joining CBS 2, Dow was the general assignment night reporter for NY1 News - the Time Warner-owned cable news station (1999-2002). While at NY1, Dow covered the 9/11 attacks, and the anniversary of the Murrah Federal Building from Oklahoma City. He also provided coverage of the aftermath of the Flight 587 crash from the Dominican Republic.
Previously, Dow served as the Blair County reporter for WJAC-TV in Johnstown, Penn. (1998-1999). He began his career in journalism as a news assistant at "CBS News This Morning" (now "The Early Show") (1997-1998).
Dow is a native of the U.S. Virgin Islands and was raised in Hackensack, N.J. In 1997, he earned a B.S. in political science with a concentration in economics from The College of New Jersey. Dow currently resides in Bergen County, N.J. with his wife and two children.
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