From February 1997 to the present, Ed has served as the YNN Rochester News Director, leading our staff in its service of the greater Rochester community. In September 2010, Ed added duties as News Director at YNN Buffalo which covers Western NY.
He is currently the most tenured news director of all television stations in Rochester.
Ed is a Rochester area native, born and raised in Wayne County. He graduated from Clyde-Savannah High School, Hudson Valley Community College and St. John Fisher College.
A 25-year local news veteran, Ed started his career at WHEC-TV-10, then worked at various radio stations in the Finger Lakes, including becoming News Director at start-up radio station WNYR-FM, Waterloo. He also served as weekend morning anchor at Rochester's WHAM radio.
Next, Ed returned to Rochester to work at WOKR-TV-13.
When former Channel 10 co-worker Pete Dobrovitz called with an opportunity to work as the main producer of Rochester's first-ever 10pm report at a startup local cable news channel WGRC-TV5, Ed jumped at the chance.
Ed is proud to be a member of the original team of employees who launched YNN Rochester when it was called News5 Rochester in April, 1990. He assisted with the launch of YNN Buffalo in March 2009 as well.
"It's amazing to take something from 'day one' to being an established news channel that viewers tune into every day," says Ed.
From the launch of the Ten O'Clock Report, Ed assisted Dobrovitz with overseeing the day-to-day operations of the news department as it grew to produce 24 hour news.
In July 1995, as the station became a 24-7 news service, Ed was named Assistant News Director.
Professionally, Ed is a member of the Radio Television Digital News Association, the National Association of Black Journalists, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and the Asian-American Journalists Association.
In the community, Ed is a member of the Education Committee of Rochester Broadway Theatre League, a school board member for the Rochester Catholic Diocese and a member of his parish finance council.
Ed's past memberships included service on the Greater Rochester Diversity Council, the Walworth Seely Library Board of Trustees, and the School Advisory Committee of Holy Trinity School in Webster as the volunteer marketing co-chair prior to its closing in 2008.
He has volunteered his time as a mentor to communications students at Rochester's Edison High School as well as a presenter to students at East High School and St. John Fisher College.
Ed has also served as a neighborhood volunteer for the American Cancer Society as well as the Arthritis Foundation.
Ed has sung professionally for more than 30 years and serves as a cantor at his family's church twice a month.
It's a running joke in the newsroom that if a news story happens in the Finger Lakes, Ed is either related to or somehow knows the principals involved.
Ed says, "it's a pleasure being able to work in my hometown and to know the traditions, history and beauty of this part of New York State."
Ed is the great, great grandson of Susan Quinn who, at 15, became the youngest signer of the Declaration of Sentiments for the suffrage movement in 1848 in Seneca Falls.
His hobbies include fitness, bowling and gardening. Ed, his wife Maria, and their daughters Chelsea and Juliana make their home in Walworth.