NBC4 Chief Meteorologist Janice Huff Receives Broadcaster of the Year Award

Montclair State University’s School of Communication and Media (SCM) continued the tradition of recognizing top media professionals by honoring NBC 4 Chief Meteorologist Janice Huff with the 2015 Allen B. DuMont Broadcaster of the Year Award. Huff received the award at a Colloquium attended by SCM students, faculty and staff.

Huff is an award-winning journalist, who recently celebrated her 20th. anniversary at New York’s WNBC-TV and appeared regularly on NBC’s "Today" show. She’s covered a wide variety of weather events from the Blizzard of ’96 to Hurricane Sandy. She’s been honored for her work on "Wednesday’s Child," a weekly segment on NBC 4 that helps find adoptive families for children in foster care. Prior to joining NBC 4, Huff was the primary meteorologist at KRON-TV in San Francisco. She also worked for local stations in St. Louis, Columbus, Ga. and Chattanooga, Tn.

Huff told students about her career path, including the major impact of an internship in weather at a station in Tallahassee, Fl. when she was a student at Florida State University. In addition to Colloquium, Huff also discussed her career and current trends in meteorology with SCM Associate Professor Marc Rosenweig during a special edition of SCM’s weekly television program "Carpe Diem."

The DuMont award, first presented in 1982, has grown steadily in prestige.  WNBC-TV’s Bruce Beck was another recent honoree. The award is in recognition of Allen B. DuMont, early television inventor and programmer.  Over the years, some of the other honorees include former Senator Bill Bradley,  Inside Edition anchor Deborah Norville, WCBS-TV anchor Kristine Johnson, CBS Sports announcer Ian Eagle, WCBS Radio chopper 880 reporter Tom Kaminski, WABC-TV anchor/reporter Joe Torres, WWOR-TV anchor Brenda Blackmon and WABC-TV Reporter N.J. Burkett.