Abbey Niezgoda is a multimedia journalist with a passion for working both behind and in front of the camera. She shoots, edits, reports and enterprises her own stories for WLNE-TV ABC6 in Providence, Rhode Island. Abbey was recently nominated as Outstanding Video Journalist by the National Academy of Television Art and Sciences, New England Chapter.
She covers everything from spot news to features on a daily deadline for ABC6. You can usually find her in a loaded up SUV, traveling across Southern New England in search of stories to tell. She gets a thrill out of knowing her office could be a courthouse one day and the coast of Newport the next.
Abbey was an anchor/reporter for WERS 88.9 FM, providing news updates every half hour during the morning and afternoon commutes. She also produced long form pieces for You Are Here, a weekly public affairs show on WERS.
Abbey has completed internships at WBZ-TV and WHDH-TV in Boston, and was selected as a college fellow at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies. She was awarded the President’s Scholarship by the Radio Television Digital News Association, and was the only college journalist invited to attend the NPPA Advanced Storytelling Workshop.
Originally from Houston, Texas, Abbey graduated from Emerson College. When she doesn’t have a tripod on her back, she has her iPhone in her pocket, eager to take on new roles as a journalist.
