Many thanks to Kelley and Susan, Kimm's collagues from Channel 5,
for their never ending support of Breast Cancer.
Kelley Tuthill is a member of Team 5 Investigates, WCVB-TV's investigative unit. She has served as co-anchor of the weekend edition of NewsCenter 5’s EyeOpener newscasts and is a substitute anchor. Tuthill joined WCVB in 1998 as a general assignment reporter.
Tuthill has covered numerous stories of local and national significance including the Columbia space shuttle explosion, the 2000 Presidential recount in Florida and the death of John F. Kennedy Jr. Her reporting of the protests outside the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston helped WCVB win the Best Breaking News Coverage Award from the Associated Press. Tuthill also covered the historic Red Sox World Series Championship run and the Patriots victory in Super Bowl XXXVI in New Orleans.Prior to coming to Channel 5, Tuthill served as a general assignment reporter at WPBF-TV in West Palm Beach, Fla. Her coverage of local and national stories earned her a Society of Professional Journalists of South Florida award for Best Breaking News Coverage. Her first television job was as a reporter/producer at WTAJ-TV in Altoona, PA.Tuthill earned a Bachelor of Arts in American Studies from the University of Notre Dame and received a Master’s from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She serves on the Journalism Advisory Board and the Arts and Letters Advisory Council at Notre Dame. In 2002, the Poynter Institute selected Tuthill for an ethics fellowship.A breast cancer survivor, Tuthill poignantly shared her journey from diagnosis to recovery with the Channel 5 family of viewers and on-line users. The cameras followed her from the early days of decision-making through surgery, chemotherapy and radiation. Tuthill’s frank, personal diary on TheBostonChannel.com has received over one million page views since its launch in January 2007. She has become a champion of local and national breast cancer organizations, raising money and awareness and is a frequent speaker at schools and community organizations. She has also served as co-host of the Muscular Dystrophy Association on WCVB since 2000.Tuthill’s career in journalism began with ink-stained hands delivering The Boston Globe in her youth. She grew up in Hingham with her parents and three sisters. Tuthill now lives west of Boston with her husband, Brendan, and their daughters, Madeline and Cecilia.
Susan Wornick has been an anchor of WCVB-TV's Midday newscast since February 1989. In January 2006, Wornick was named a member of Team 5 Investigates, WCVB's investigative unit. She has also served as NewsCenter 5's consumer reporter and as a general assignment reporter. Wornick joined the station in 1981.Wornick has won many awards while at WCVB. In 2005, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences recognized her with the Silver Circle Award for twenty-five years of service to WCVB and the community.In 1991, she received the prestigious Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association (ABA) for a news series she reported called Punishment Without A Crime. The series examined a Massachusetts law which allows the imprisonment of innocent women with drug or alcohol problems. It focused statewide attention on the insufficient number of Massachusetts state treatment facilities for women, including teenagers, who for lack of proper treatment facilities, often end up in a prison cell.Wornick has also received two regional Emmy Awards and a number of other honors while at WCVB. In 1984, she shared an Emmy Award for the coverage of the breaking story surrounding a verdict in a controversial trial, and in 1983, she shared an Emmy for the NewsCenter 5 coverage of the crash of a World Airways plane at Boston's Logan Airport.In June, 1985, she gained national prominence by refusing to reveal a news source. Wornick was held in contempt of court and narrowly averted a jail sentence.Wornick was an anchor and reporter at WHDH Radio in Boston from 1979 to 1981. She also worked for WBZ Radio in Boston as an anchor/reporter from 1978 to 1979. During this time, she won several Associated Press and United Press International Awards for radio journalism.Born and raised in Natick, Wornick now resides in Needham. She is a graduate of Boston's Emerson College, where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree. In 1988, Wornick was honored by the State Department of Youth Services for her volunteer work with troubled teenagers. In 1995, she was recognized with an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters Degree from Becker College in Worcester, MA.