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Newsday/New York Newsday
Reporter and Columnist. (1982-1995).

During an award-winning career, Ms. Sachar covered the paper's most demanding beats (NYC Board of Education, transportation, courts, business and the New York State Legislature).

Ms. Sachar's work, in the most competitive newspaper town in the country, with four respected daily newspapers hitting the streets every day, was recognized around the world. Ms. Sachar was summoned for radio and TV talk show appearances on a regular basis, and her stories were routinely picked up on morning news shows. She had an eye for the fun, as well as the serious. Many recall the day she raced the M-34 bus across Manhattan, narrowly beating the bus while wearing 4-inch heels! A photo-finish photograph graced the cover of the next day's newspaper.
Major accomplishments:



Best of Times, Worst of Times
This cover marks a nine-part series about Ms. Sachar’s year teaching 8th-grade math at a difficult Brooklyn school. The series became the “dress rehearsal” for a book, Shut Up and Let the Lady Teach.

Tow Truck to Nowhere
In this undercover story, Ms. Sachar’s investigative journalistic work exposed that the Department of Transportation was illegally towing legally parked cars to make money for New York City.

Gotcha
This exclusive story, picked up by every major newspaper and 5 TV stations, demonstrated the early success of a program that few knew existed: photographing cars as they sped through red lights.

The Most Deadly Job
In an expose on the danger of driving a New York City cab, Ms. Sachar told the tales of 34 cabbies who had been killed on-the-job.


You Can’t Get There
In another exclusive, Ms. Sachar broke open a study that showed that people trying to hail cabs to the outer boroughs of New York City were routinely rebuffed by the city’s cab drivers.

Orphan Drugs: Neglected Cures
After a four-month reporting project, Ms. Sachar reported that drug companies’ concern about shareholder returns and profits is the primary reason they shy from researching rare diseases.





Cartoon Power
Ms. Sachar studied dozens of Saturday morning cartoons and reported a direct correlation between the shows’ characters and the toys sold during commercial breaks. She learned that, to sell toys, toy companies were paying to create the cartoon characters. The story led to overhaul by every network in their Saturday morning TV lineup.





Recommendations
"In the years that she worked at Newsday and New York Newsday, Emily Sachar was a journalistic Bersaglieri -- sharpshooter accurate, often daring, writing with flair, personally stylish (and sometimes flamboyant) and always on the run. During the time that she covered New York City schools, many (including myself) considered her the best and most dogged reporter on the beat. She also covered courts, transportation, and the State Legislature, and had a rare combination of tenacity and compassion that caused her to not only compete but thrive in the cutthroat intensity of a four-newspaper town."
--Tony Marro, Editor
“Emily and I worked together on a large database reporting project. She combined her relentless curiosity with a sharp eye for detail in the reporting. In the writing, she managed to explain complicated issues with great clarity and breathed life into what could have been a deadly statistical report in less capable hands.”
--Tom Curran, Deputy metropolitan editor, New York Newsday

“Few reporters in my experience match Emily's blend of reportorial tenacity and innate understanding of what makes a good story. Emily is a consummate professional, a top-flight journalist who always brings editorial clarity, newsroom smarts and perspective to her work. We had the opportunity to collaborate on several writing projects at New York Newsday, and I learned much from that experience. Personally and professionally, I recommend Emily without hesitation.”
--Scott Ladd, Writer/Editor, New York Newsday


“Emily delivers tangible results that matter. As a reporter, she was known around the New York Newsday newsroom as a story originator par excellence, one who could be counted on both to cover complex beats in a highly competitive four-newspaper town and to execute daily assignment stories in record time. Her sharp mind allowed her to quickly get to the gist of any topic or situation quickly and thoroughly and to tell stories with compassion and detail. And because she had a strong sense for the topics that drove readership, her stories had impact. Her pieces were routinely picked up by the competition, including radio, TV and the other newspapers. Emily's career since her time at Newsday has been fast-paced but well-conceived, and she has moved smoothly from reporting to editing, and from print journalism to the Internet. She excels day in and day out.”
--Steve Gunn, Deputy Metro Editor, New York Newsday (supervisor)