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Marie Hickey is the New York Bureau chief for the Emmy award winning entertainment magazine show, Extra.

A native New Yorker, Marie attended Fordham University where she began her career in broadcasting working at Fordham’s radio station WFUV. She anchored the station’s evening report and hosted the popular Irish music program, Ceol Na Gael.

Upon graduation Marie landed her first job as a production assistant in the news department at WPIX. Marie moved up in the ranks of local news from PA to writer, producer, and executive producer finally becoming news director at Fox 5: the Fox Network’s flagship station in NYC.

Marie made the move to the entertainment side of the business when she got a call out of the blue from a former colleague with the interesting possibility of running the New York office for “Extra”

After just one trip to Los Angeles Marie made the transition to entertainment and took the job never looking back.

In addition to covering traditional entertainment stories Marie has utilized her news background to oversee Extra’s coverage of the September 11th attacks, Superstorm Sandy, the Sandy Hook shootings, the royal weddings and ticker tape parades .