Emmy Award-winning journalist Ayana Harry has covered significant local, national, and international news stories for over a decade.

Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Ayana joined Spectrum News NY1 as a multimedia journalist covering politics in 2023.

Ayana’s career began at ABC News in New York, where she worked her way up from intern to desk assistant, ultimately becoming a field producer. She was part of a go-team that was dispatched across the country to coordinate network coverage after major breaking news. While at ABC News, Ayana covered presidential campaigns, the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, the Bernie Madoff arrest and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. 

Before joining the team at NY1, Ayana was a reporter and fill-in anchor at PIX11 News in New York City, where she focused on City Hall politics and criminal justice issues. While at PIX11, Ayana was the first television journalist to cover Eric Garner’s police-involved death.

In 2015, Ayana traveled to Haiti to report on recovery efforts, five years after the country’s devastating 7.0-magnitude earthquake. Additionally, Ayana was in the courtroom every day for the criminal trials of Harvey Weinstein and R. Kelly. More recently, she covered the daily developments in the races for New York City mayor in 2021 and New York governor in 2022.

Ayana joined PIX11 from WTIC-TV in Hartford, Connecticut, where she covered the Sandy Hook school shooting and Hurricane Sandy.

A graduate of Princeton University, Ayana holds a Bachelor of Arts in Politics.

You can follow Ayana on X (formerly Twitter), Instagram and TikTok @AyanaHarry and Facebook @AyanaHarryNews.