Pat Battle (born December 9, 1959) is an American television journalist and news anchor. Since 1996, she has been at WNBC-TV.
Early life Patricia (nickname, "Pat") N. Battle was born December 9, 1959. Of African-American descent, she grew up in Neptune Township, New Jersey, where her mother was a member of the township committee and served as police commissioner. She graduated from Neptune High School in 1977, where she had been a cheerleader.Lewis, Evelyn Stryker (1998). Neptune and Shark River Hills (via Google Books), p. 88. Charlotte, North Carolina: Arcadia Publishing; ; retrieved May 27, 2011. Her first job was with the Asbury Park Press as a reporter.Arsenau, Guy. "Weekends start early with N.J.'s Pat Battle", Inside Jersey, January 27, 2015. Accessed January 23, 2018. "A native of Neptune Township, Battle began her career as a reporter for the Asbury Park Press, in Asbury Park."
Career Battle won a 2005 New York Regional Emmy Award for Political Programming for her work on the U.S. presidential primary edition of WNBC-TV's What Matters.
She appeared as herself on the Netflix series, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and is set to appear in a second-season episode of Peacock's Girls5eva.
Personal life Battle is a resident of Teaneck, New Jersey, and is married to Anthony Johnson, a reporter with WABC-TV, a competing New York City television station. In October 2010, she publicly revealed that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer and undergone a lumpectomy.Pat Battle bio, nbcnewyork.com; accessed October 30, 2014.
Filmography Film Year Title Role Notes 2011 New Year's Eve Reporter "Times Square" segment; first major film acting debut 2012 The Bourne Legacy MSNBC anchor 2022 The Batman Newscaster
Television Year Title Role Notes 2012 30 Rock Herself 1 episode (season 7, episode 8: My Whole Life Is Thunder), appeared alongside fellow WNBC colleague Sue Simmons. 2015 Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Herself 1 episode (season 1, episode 4: Kimmy Goes to the Doctor!); credited as Patricia Battle. 2022 Girls5eva Herself 2 episodes (season 2, episode 1: Album Mode, season 2, episode 7: Returnity).
See also
List of American print journalists List of people from Teaneck, New Jersey List of people from New York City List of people from Philadelphia List of television reporters List of University of Maryland, College Park people
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