Melvin McCray

Melvin McCray

McCray has been an editor at ABC News since 1981. His work on Nightline, World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, and Peter Jennings Special Reports has been recognized repeatedly with the highest awards in broadcast journalism, including DuPont Columbia awards in 2005, 1996, and 1995. He was also part of ABC News teams honored in 2004 with the Radio-Television News Directors Association’s Edward R. Murrow Award and in 2002 with a George Foster Peabody Award for coverage of the events of September 11, 2001, and their aftermath.   Since 1999, McCray has taught media and television journalism courses at Princeton University, Long Island University, the Phelps-Stokes Fund, and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He is a member of the jury for the George Polk Awards in Journalism.  McCray is a graduate of Princeton University.