About
Summary
Joe Pergola is an award-winning multimedia journalist, broadcaster, and sports media personality. As an aspiring television reporter and on-air talent, he seeks to entertain, engage, and inform through the art of storytelling and live coverage.
Joe graduated from Hofstra University in May 2025 with a BA in Journalism, a sports media concentration and a minor in graphic design.
Joe is currently a production intern for 7 On Your Side at WABC in New York City, the #1 local news station in the United States. He helps produce news stories regarding consumer affairs and works to resolve subjects' consumer issues. Working alongside reporter Nina Pineda, Joe writes, researches, and field produces content for this special projects team. As of October 2025, Joe has helped viewers recover nearly $30,000.
Before starting at Channel 7, Joe got his first local newsroom experience as an intern at FOX 5 New York WNYW. He mainly contributed at the assignment desk, organizing daybooks, rolling on media and pitching stories. Joe was also responsible for field producing and gathering man-on-the-street interviews for news coverage. He also coordinated guests and assisted hosts for the Noon newscast and Good Night NY.
In conjunction with Fox 5 New York over the summer, Joe was also named an IRTS Summer Fellow, an achievement bestowed upon fewer than 40 of the brightest young media professionals across the country. As a fellow staying in NYV for 9 weeks, Joe was given the opportunity to build a vast professional network and learn from top industry leaders. At the end of the summer, Joe was honored with the Stephen K. Nenno Inspirational Fellow award.
In Spring 2025, Joe was a production intern for the FOX Business Network, specifically working on Maria Bartiromo's Wall Street and Barron's Roundtable. Before that in fall 2024, he got his first internship at SiriusXM, producing audio content for radio programming. Around the same time, he was also on a team of students collaborating with the PBS local affiliate, THIRTEEN PBS, to create an installment of a digital series called Your Voice Matters, following the events of the 2024 presidential election.
While studying at Hofstra, the HEAT Network is one of the main extracurriculars Joe took part in. He produced, anchored, hosted and reported for numerous shows in HEAT's programming, such as newscasts like Hofstra Today, Hofstra News Now, and Hofstra Votes LIVE, plus sports talk shows like Sports Beat and Over The Line. However, Joe's highlight of his time at Hofstra was when he created his very own news show from scratch, Good Morning Hofstra. Joe both produced and anchored this 30-minute morning news show, as well as doing original reporting, producing video content and graphics, and recruiting and coordinating an entire team of talent and production crew. Joe also won the New York State Broadcasters Association Award for "Outstanding Evening Newscast" as a producer for an episode of HNN.
88.7FM WRHU
While Joe's ultimate focus is television, he spent most of his time at Hofstra at the 5x Marconi award-winning radio station, WRHU. As a member, Joe produced, anchored, hosted and reported for numerous radio shows, such as the station's evening newscast Newsline, two-hour morning talk show Hofstra Morning Wake-Up Call, and sports talk shows like The Pro Take and The Locker Room. He had plenty of on-site reporting opportunities, including in New Hampshire during the 2024 presidential primaries and at the WNBA Commissioner's Cup at UBS Arena. In 2024, Joe received a Content Excellence award from the station, and in 2025, he was honored with a leadership award.
Long Island Advocate
Outside of broadcast, Joe reported for Hofstra's community-oriented digital publication, the Long Island Advocate. As a one-man-band reporter, he would shoot video, conduct interviews, write and edit short video packages joined by written portions online.