ANN TRIPP
Ann Tripp is the award-winning News Director of both WBLS and WLIB Radio. Ann currently provides the twice hourly “news and views” on the nationally-syndicated Steve Harvey Morning Show on WBLS and the once-an-hour news update on Get Up! Morning’s with Erica Campbell on WLIB, which is also heard nationally.
Ann began her on-air career at age 14 and she has long been known for her unique, “conversational” news delivery…a style now employed by several other radio and television news announcers.
While in high school, Ann was featured on WNYC as an announcer, actor and singer on the weekly variety show produced by the Police Athletic League. She graduated from City College, toured Europe for a few years as a singer and then began her adult media career as a street reporter and on-air personality on WHN (now ESPN), a position she held for 6 years. Tripp then worked at WNEW before moving to the record-shattering WKTU (Disco 92) as a news announcer and interviewer for the next eight years. While there Ann also hosted a gospel music show for RADIO YOKOHAMA in Japan After that, she became News and Public Service Director of WXRK (or K-ROCK).
Ann Tripp later enjoyed a 13-year stint at WRKS (KISS-FM) starting in 1987,
where she was heard every morning as co-host of the top-rated Isaac Hayes and Friends Morning Show, adding a “woman’s touch” through her bubbly
personality, funny antics and “on-target” one-liners. On weekends, she was a co-host of the highly-rated political roundtable The Week in Review.
Next Ms. Tripp served as news commentator on The Paul Mooney Show (WBLS) and before that performed as both the co-host of The Global Village on WLIB and newscaster on The Doug Banks Show on WBLS….at the same time!
Ann Tripp was the host of Healthful Solutions (on cable); she’s been a narrator on certain Showtime Television specials and is the executive producer, researcher and “voice” of the nationally-syndicated show Black History Minute (United Stations Radio Network), where she profiles the historic, cultural, political and social milestones of African Americans.
Ann Tripp has taught broadcast journalism at the National Broadcasting Network and conducted media seminars at Jersey City State College. Tripp is a member of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the New York Press Club and the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women’s Club, Inc.
Ann Tripp has received a Congressional Proclamation, three New York City
Council Proclamations and has been honored by the New York State Broadcasters Association for her domestic violence series. Ms. Tripp has been awarded the Ida B. Wells Journalism Award, the Lincoln Center Award, Best Female New York City Radio Newscaster, Outstanding Young Woman in America, The McDonald’s “Faces of Black History” Award (2012) and the “Rosa Parks Award” from the Social Studies teachers union of the City of New York (2015).
She has been honored by Alpha Kappa Alpha and Zeta Phi Beta Sororities,
Bellevue Hospital, the Boy Scouts, the Bedford-Stuyvesant Healthy-Heart
Program, the American Kidney Foundation, the Jackie Robinson Center for
Physical Culture, The Caribbean-American Chamber of Commerce and Industry, The Network Journal, 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care, Legends of Brooklyn, Black Veterans for Social Justice, was recognized as a community leader by Bronx Borough President, Ruben Diaz, Jr. and honored as a Women’s History Maker by New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer.
Ann Tripp has been quoted in the New York Times, New York Newsday and the New York Daily News.
She has served on the Board of Directors of the Harlem Beauty Pageant, the New York Lung Association, Safe Horizon (formerly Victim Services) and The Make the Grade Foundation.
Her television appearances include: Good Day New York, The Maury Povich
Show, Geraldo, The Ed Gordon Show, Donahue, the John Walsh Show and the United Negro College Fund Telethon (as a host for four years).
