Susan Arbetter is the Albany-based State Capitol Correspondent and News & Public Affairs Director for WCNY Syracuse Public Television. Based full-time at the Capitol in Albany, Arbetter hosts and produces The Capitol Pressroom, the only public radio show broadcast from the Capitol, and the only show to serve multiple markets in upstate New York, including Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Owsego, and Binghamton. Her political analysis can also be heard regularly on North Country Public Radio.
Prior to her move to WCNY in September 2009, Susan created, hosted, and produced the Edward R. Murrow Award-winning New York Now, the leading statewide government and public affairs TV program in New York State.
Before making the leap to television in April 2007, Susan created, hosted, and produced the award-winning "Roundtable Show" on WAMC Northeast Public Radio. |
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Susan Arbetter has worked in professional radio for twenty years, starting as the Assistant Public Affairs Director at Boston’s WBOS-FM. In 1992-1993, she co-hosted the number 1 rated morning show in the Capital Region on WPYX-FM in Albany, NY, with Mason and Sheehan. From there she moved to WAMC Public Radio in Albany in 1993 as a reporter and host. She was promoted to News Director in 1994, a title she held for six years until creating the Roundtable Show.
Susan is the recipient of a regional Edward R. Murrow Award for best television documentary (2007), as well as two awards from the National Educational Television Association (2008) for best PBS Public Affairs Program and best PBS Promotion.
In radio, Susan has received multiple awards for radio journalism, including a national Scripps-Howard Award for Excellence in Electronic Journalism, the National Press Club Kozik Award for Environmental Journalism, and more than twenty regional Edward R. Murrow, New York State Broadcasters, and New York State Associated Press Awards.
Susan has been named the Women’s Press Club’s “Media Person of the Year,” the Times Union’s “Best Voice of the Capital Region,” the Times Union’s “Best Local Radio Talk Personality.” Berkshire Living’s “Our Favorite Voice,” and Hudson Valley Magazine’s “The Best Laugh in the Hudson Valley.” For the past two years, Metroland has voted New York Now “Best Political TV Show” in the Capital Region. In September 2009, Susan was featured on the cover of Metroland for a piece on the changing roles of public radio and television.
Susan is a member of the Albany County League of Women Voters as well as an honorary board member of The Legal Project. She is a graduate of Boston University. She and her husband, Times Union "Speaking of Nature" columnist and Massachusetts-based teacher Bill Danielson, live in Altamont, New York.
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