Ruschell Boone


Ruschell Boone is a Jamaican-born reporter and journalist based in New York City.

Early life and education

Boone was born in Kingston, Jamaica, to parents Faithlyn Scott and Duke Scott. She immigrated to the Bronx when she was 11. As a child, Boone recalls that she was shy and got bullied for her Jamaican accent.
Boone earned a degree in accounting from City University of New York Baruch College. Although she picked accounting to ensure a good living, she discovered her passion for journalism in her senior year when she took over a college radio segment for a missing guest. Boone’s academic counselor tried to dissuade her from a career change, saying that it was too late for her to change paths and that she did not “fit the mold”.

Career

Working in media since 1998, Boone was a news associate for CNBC and an associate producer and assignment editor for CNN. She joined New York 1 in 2002.
As a reporter for NY1, she has covered breaking stories such as the 2016 bombing in Manhattan and the 2016 presidential election. She became a general assignment reporter for NY1's Live at Ten newscast in 2018. In 2019, Boone was nominated for three Emmy awards for news reporting and work on NY1's talk shows and in 2020 she was nominated for a New York Emmy Award as a live reporter.

Awards

Personal life

On September 24, 2005, Ruschell West married Todd Boone, a television production technician.