Aditi Roy joined NBC10 in 2002 as a general assignment reporter. For the summer months of 2011, she will be reporting for NBC News in Burbank, California, and will be seen nationally on The Today Show and NBC Nightly News. Prior to joining NBC10, Roy was a reporter for KHQ-TV in Spokane, Washington. She also reported and was a photographer for KLKN-TV in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Roy has received numerous honors, including multiple Emmy nominations. She was named Main Line Today Magazine’s 2010 “Best News Anchor, Reader’s Choice”. In 2009, Philadelphia Magazine named Roy “Best News Anchor” in its “Best of Philly” issue.
Roy has a B.A. in Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley, where she graduated with high honors. She also earned an M.A. in Political Science from Stanford University and an M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University. She is fluent in Bengali and has also studied Spanish.
In her spare time, Roy is an avid runner and has completed two marathons in Chicago and Washington, D.C. She enjoys traveling, and has taken numerous trips to India, where her parents grew up before they emigrated to the U.S. She also enjoys playing the piano.
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