2023 Imagination Award
Ruschell Boone

Three-time Emmy nominated and award-winning reporter and anchor at Spectrum News NY1

Bronxite Ruschell Boone is a multi-Emmy award winning journalist at Spectrum News NY1. She is the daytime Anchor and Host of "News All Day," a one-hour program that highlights news, politics, health and wellness, education and entertainment.  Ruschell started her on-camera career at the station in 2002 as the Queens Beat Reporter. She was affectionately known as "The People's Reporter" before moving to the anchor chair in 2021.  Many of her stories, including her work during the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, have gained national and social media attention with several of her interviews going viral. Ruschell's most watched story was her exclusive interview with Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez after her stunning Democratic primary win 2018. That interview is now featured in the Netflix documentary "Knock Down the House" and the Hulu documentary "Hillary."  In June of 2022, Ruschell was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.  After 9 months of chemotherapy and the "Whipple Surgery" she is back at work and celebrating life. Ruschell is a native of Kingston, Jamaica.  She is also a wife and mother of two.