Checkey Beckford Biography
Checkey Beckford is a well-known American Emmy Award-winning Reporter working for NBC 4 New York as their reporter. She began working at the station in October 2012. She is a communications PRO with experience in creative storytelling and messaging, crisis communications, video production, digital marketing, and public relations. Beckford has over two-plus decades of experience covering politics, business, health, communities… and just about everything else.
Her exemplarity of Journalism excellence, she has been recognized with two New York Emmys for her coverage of the 2017 Tribeca terrorist attacks. Also, she was presented with ESSENCE Magazine’s “Essential Heroes Award” which recognized her coverage of 2020’s COVID-19 outbreak.
Checkey Beckford Education
She received her education at Florida Atlantic University where she graduated in 2004 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in communication and Media Studies and minors in Political Science and Sociology.
Checkey Beckford Career
She currently works at NBC 4 New York as a Reporter. She has been working at the station since October 2012. Some of her roles there include; researching and reporting stories for broadcast on NBC’s flagship New York station, writing and producing stories that garner high page views, consistently using social media to connect with viewers, leading a team of photojournalists, editors, and graphic designers to produce impactful stories among others. She first joined NBC 4 as a general assignment reporter. At NBC 4 New York, she has covered many of the region’s most memorable news stories, such as news coverage of Superstorm Sandy in 2012, New York City’s Ebola scare in 2014, the deadly Metro-North crash in Valhalla in 2015, the twin murders of NYPD Officers Wenjian Liu, and Rafael Ramos in 2015.
Prior to joining NBC 4 New York, she was a News Reporter at CBS13 from December 2008 to October 2012. There, she grew market share producing stories that helped move newscast viewership from third to second place, and formed strong relationships with external stakeholders to deliver immigration, agriculture, and political news coverage in California’s capital. Also, she was regularly tasked with translating complicated budget data into relatable stories and was the first reporter to cover the U.C. Davis pepper spray controversy. From January 2007 to December 2008, she worked for WICD/WICS as a News Reporter. There, she covered stories in the nation’s heartland from agriculture to politics, covered a broad range of stories in the nation’s heartland from agriculture to health innovations, and video produced, recorded, wrote, and edited daily stories under tight deadlines.
Prior to that, she was a News Producer at WPTV NewsChannel 5 from November 2005 to December 2006. There, she provided strategic leadership and direction managing video editors, writers, and graphic designers while supervising the production and execution of live newscasts and coordinating with a cross-functional team of anchors, producers, and technical staff daily. From October 2004 to November 2005, he was a Public Relations Coordinator/Project Manager at 10e20, LLC. During her stint there, she wrote search engine optimized (SEO) content to drive traffic to client websites, created effective press releases connecting client services or products to current events, and collaborated with web designers to create sites and content that connected with target audiences.
Checkey Beckford Age
Beckford was born on February 4, 1982, therefore she is 41 years old as of July 2023. She thus celebrates her birthday on February 4th of every year.
Checkey Beckford Height
She stands at an approximate height of 5 feet 6 inches (1.68m) tall.
Checkey Beckford Family
Beckford has managed to keep her personal life away from the limelight hence she has not disclosed any information about her parents. It is also not known if Chjeckey has any siblings.
Checkey Beckford Husband
Checkey is married to the love of his life, Jimmy Atkinson. They met in March 2014 at a coffee date. They got married on April 2, 2016. She and her husband are blessed with two kids, a son and a daughter.
Checkey Beckford’s Net Worth
Beckford has an estimated net worth ranging between $1 million – $5 million which she has earned through being a Reporter.
Checkey Beckford Salary
She earns an annual salary ranging between $20,000 – $120,000.
Checkey Beckford NBC 4 New York
Checkey works at NBC 4 New York where she works alongside other prominent NBC 4 New York reporters, anchors, meteorologists, and sports anchors including;
- Julio “Gaby” Acevedo
- Gilma Avalos
- Lynda Baquero
- Pat Battle
- Bruce Beck
- Matt Brickman
- Erica Byfield
- Adelle Caballero
- Greg Cergol
- John Chandler
- Pei-Sze Cheng
- Michael Gargiulo
- Sara Gore
- Ted Greenberg
- Janice Huff
- Adam Kuperstein
- Maria LaRosa
- Jen Maxfield
- Myles Miller
- Raphael Miranda
- Rana Novini
- Natalie Pasquarella
- Dave Price
- Darlene Rodriguez
- Gus Rosendale
- Marc Santia
- Lauren Scala
- Chuck Scarborough
- Ida Siegal
- Andrew Siff
- Romney Smith
- Tracie Strahan
- Brian Thompson
- David Ushery
- Sarah Wallace
- Violeta Yas