Introduction
Patricia N. "Pat" Battle (born December 9, 1959) is an American journalist. Since 1996, she has been at WNBC-TV.
Early life
Of African-American descent, Battle grew up in Neptune Township, New Jersey, where her mother was a member of the township committee and served as police commissioner. She graduated from Neptune High School in 1977, where she had been a cheerleader. Her first job was with the Asbury Park Press as a reporter.
Career
Battle won a 2005 New York Regional Emmy Award for Political Programming for her work on the U.S. presidential primary edition of WNBC-TV's What Matters.
She appeared as herself on the Netflix original show, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
Personal life
Battle is a resident of Teaneck, New Jersey, and is married to Anthony Johnson, a reporter with WABC-TV, a competing New York City television station. In October 2010, she publicly revealed that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer and undergone a lumpectomy.