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Honoring 50 years of Excellence in New York Broadcast Journalism

Join us May 20 in honoring Chuck Scarborough, one of broadcast journalism's most celebrated members, as the 2026 Silurians Lifetime Achievement Award recipient.


Scarborough was lead anchor for WNBC News for a record 50 years, eight months and 17 days, a career that earned him 37 Emmy Awards, an Edward R. Murrow Award, the DuPont-Columbia Award, and many others.


Scarborough will be in conversation with Rich Lamb, a legendary broadcast reporter in his own right with 47 years at WCBS News Radio.



Scarborough began reporting for the NBC in 1974. Over the years, he led breaking news coverage locally and abroad, filing reports from Europe, Russia, the Middle East, the Philippines, Mexico and South America.

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A U.S. Air Force veteran, Scarborough began his television career as an anchor and operations manager at WLOX-TV in Biloxi, Mississippi. He was anchor/reporter for WDAM-TV in Hattiesburg, Mississippi; WAGA-TV in Atlanta and WNAC-TV in Boston.


As a part of NBC 4 New York’s continuing coverage of Hurricane Sandy, Scarborough earned a National Emmy and Edward R. Murrow award.


Scarborough’s anchoring was a key component of NBC 4 New York’s award-winning COVID-19 coverage, honored in January, 2021 with the prestigious Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for “creat(ing) a 360 view in real time of the coronavirus pandemic, with courageous and thorough reporting on the virus’s explosion in New York City.” The duPont has long been recognized as the broadcast, documentary and on-line equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize, also awarded by Columbia University.


In addition, he has earned 36 local Emmy® Awards and was honored by the New York Chapter of Television Arts & Sciences with their 2014 “Governor’s Award” as recognition of his long and distinguished career in journalism.

Scarborough’s work has also earned awards from the Associated Press, New York Press Club; the Aviation and Space Writers; the Washington Review of Journalism’s Best in the Business; the Working Press Association; and the New York State Broadcasters Association. He has authored three novels, Stryker (1978), The Myrmidon Project (1980), and Aftershock (1991) and has published articles in New York Magazine, Boston Magazine, and American Home Magazine.