Michael DelGiudice, Long Island Journalism Hall of Fame Class of 2026
Posted on May. 24, 2026 / Subscribe 0
Michael DelGiudice has worked in the news business for over 41 years. He has worked at WNBC-TV since November 2006 and has been part of a three-photojournalist team that covers Long Island. Prior to working at News 4 New York, he worked for News 12 Long Island, covering Long Island for almost 20 years.
While working at both stations, DelGiudice earned many prestigious awards, most notably 95 Regional Emmy Awards from the New York Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
Michael has received five National Edward R. Murrow Awards from the RTDNA and has won more than a dozen Regional Murrow Awards.
DelGiudice is part of the news team that won the coveted 2021 duPont-Columbia Award for WNBC’s extensive coverage of the COVID pandemic.
Michael is an eight-time National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) Regional “Photographer of the Year” award winner. He has also received dozens of NPPA “Best of Photojournalism” national awards for TV Photography and Editing. In 2006, he was named a national “Ernie Crisp TV News Photographer of the Year” finalist.
DelGiudice has also won many New York state and local awards, including dozens of Media Awards from the Society of Professional Journalists' Long Island chapter, the Press Club of Long Island.
Michael was the director of photography and co-producer of the Emmy Award-winning documentary, “Long Island’s Lighthouses”, narrated by Dick Cavett. He has also shot other documentaries, including one in Mexico and one in Guatemala.
DelGiudice left New York briefly in 1993-94 to work in San Francisco, where he worked for the Bay Area’s KTVU (FOX) and ABC’s network news magazine, “Turning Point.”
A native Long Islander, Michael earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the New York Institute of Technology. He is 63, and currently lives in Massapequa with his daughter, Riley, and son, Frankie.
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