Adele Sammarco began her television news career in broadcast journalism at WWOR-TV/Channel 9 News in Secaucus, New Jersey after graduating from New York University. While at Channel 9, Adele field-produced such stories as the Crown Heights Riots and the John Gotti, Sr. trial. She also helped produce the segment entitled, "Where Are They Now?" which involved spotlighting newsmakers of the past. In 1992, at the station's inception, Adele Sammarco was hired as one of the original NY1 News Reporters. She filed thousands of stories for NY1 and became the station's first female Criminal Justice Reporter in 1999. Adele Sammarco covered a wide range of topics from police brutality to the U.S. Embassy bombings in Africa and was the first NYC cable television news Reporter to venture inside the Jersey City apartment of the terror suspects who blew up the World Trade Center in 1993. Adele Sammarco also covered high profile trials of rapper Tupac Shakur, Genovese Crime Family Chief Vincent "the Chin" Gigante and the Teflon Don, John Gotti, Jr. Additionally, Adele Sammarco covered the crash of TWA Flight 800 extensively from the Ramada Plaza Hotel at JFK Airport. She was also first to report the verdict in the Amadou Diallo police shooting trial live from the Albany Courthouse. In 2006, Adele Sammarco served as the Director of Public Relations and Marketing for Snug Harbor Cultural Center on Staten Island, New York where she helped organized Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s State of the City Address, broadcast live from the Music Hall on the Center's 83-acre campus. In addition to her journalism career, Adele Sammarco is a member of the Screen Actors Guild. In a role for which she was well qualified, Adele played the part of a Reporter in the 1999 film, The Confession, starring Alec Baldwin and Ben Kingsley. Adele Sammarco was also featured in a Japanese Panasonic commercial. Adele Sammarco earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Tisch School of the Arts at NYU in New York City, majoring in Film, Television, and Communications. While working toward her degree, Adele successfully wrote, edited, and produced a senior film entitled, “Rush Hour”, about a day in the life of a young college student who commutes to and from school on the world famous Staten Island Ferry. Adele Sammarco actively supports a number of charities, including the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and the American Cancer Society, Inc., and has contributed to fundraising efforts for breast cancer awareness. In her free time, Adele Sammarco enjoys skiing, biking, hiking, and running. Adele Sammarco showed her love of running when she participated in Scott’s Race, a 5K 9/11 memorial run dedicated to fallen firefighter Captain Scott LaPiedra. Adele profiled his story on NY1 and also dedicated her run to 911 fallen firefighter and friend, Arthur Barry of Ladder 15 located at the South Street Seaport in Lower Manhattan. Adele Sammarco loves to read, counting Eugene O’Neill, Tennessee Williams, Charles Dickens, and Emily Brontë among her favorite authors.
