Mary Calvi

Mary Calvi, an award-winning journalist, serves as an anchor for CBS 2 News This Morning and CBS 2 News At Noon. She is also the weekend anchor at Inside Edition, America’s #1 rated syndicated newsmagazine.

Calvi has provided live breaking news reports on a wide range of stories across the tri-state area, gained unprecedented access to the FBI’s underwater anti-terrorism team and reported from underwater, found a missing grandmother in the Blackout of 2003, and traveled to Rome to cover the events surrounding Pope John Paul II. Calvi also provided coverage on the attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001 and in 1993.

In 2018, Calvi debuted her first novel, Dear George, Dear Mary. The novel, based on historical accounts, explores the relationship between George Washington and his first love, Mary Eliza Philipse. Her second novel, If A Poem Could Live and Breathe: A Novel of Teddy Roosevelt’s First Love, is based on love letters from the Gilded Age to and from Roosevelt and his first love, Alice Lee.

Calvi’s credits include more than 10 New York Emmy Awards for her live breaking news coverage on a wide range of stories, including the Miracle on the Hudson, as well as in-depth series, one of which focused on protecting children from sex offenders.

Calvi has been honored for her writing at the New York Festival’s World Media Awards. She also earned a National ACE Award for Excellence in Journalism, a Clarion Award for Excellence in Reporting, and the ACIM Award for Excellence in Community Service.

She joined WCBS-TV in 2002 from News 12 Westchester where she served as anchor and assistant news director. She also worked with News 12 Long Island and served as a national correspondent for USA Networks. She began her career in New York in radio.

Calvi graduated magna cum laude from the S.I. Newhouse School at Syracuse University with a degree in journalism. A native of Westchester County, she was once the First Lady of the City of Yonkers, where she resides with her family.