Randy Gorbman
WXXI director of news and public affairsRandy Gorbman is WXXI's director of news and public affairs. Randy manages the day-to-day operations of WXXI News on radio, television, and online.
Randy has over 30 years of broadcast news experience, and was recently news director at WHAM-AM in Rochester. Randy has also been news director, writer, announcer, and producer at radio stations in several cities in New York and Connecticut, as well as working as an editor at the NBC Radio Network. He served as past president of the New York State Associated Press Broadcasters' Association, and is currently a member of its board of directors.
Randy has also taught journalism to local students, serving as adjunct instructor at SUNY Geneseo and Monroe Community College.
Randy received his bachelor's degree in communication from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, and his master's degree in liberal arts from SUNY Empire State College.
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Both utilities, who are part of the company Avangrid, will use funding from New York state to apply one-time bill credits for all electric and natural gas customers.
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LiDestri Foods also has been working to divest from their spirits and beverage lines, and just focus on food, a mainstay of the business.
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The organization, which provides services that include child abuse investigation, education and prevention, already has operations on Mt. Hope Avenue. The new location, to open this fall, will be located at Skyview on the Ridge.
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The entire 13-member Republican caucus voted against the measure Tuesday night, as did three Democrats. One of the Democrats, Legislature President Yversha Roman, said she voted 'no' to preserve the option for the measure to be reconsidered in the current term.
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Officials said the shelter on Verona Street is now operating beyond its maximum capacity and had to put this policy in place through April 28 due to a lack of available space and resources.
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Craft Cannery will expand in Bergen, Genesee County, to increase their abilities for providing contract manufacturing.
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About two dozen staffers at the newspaper walked off the job early Saturday after they said they could not get a contract offer that would address their concerns on issues that include wages and job security.
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Among the issues that unionized journalists say need to be resolved are items about reporter pay and resources for the newsroom.
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The city of Rochester is among a number of local municipalities changing schedules on Monday due to the potential for hundreds of thousands of eclipse watchers to stream into the region for the total solar eclipse.
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Democratic President Joe Biden and Republican and former President Donald Trump have already secured enough delegates to win their parties’ nominations at the political conventions this summer.