BIO
Abbie Kearse is a Peabody Award winning television producer, writer and reporter, who worked for BET, Martha Stewart Living Television and for MTV News, a division of Viacom Inc., from 1990 to 1998. The Peabody was won in 1992 for work as a writer on MTV's Presidential Election coverage the "Choose or Lose" campaign. From 1997 -1998 at MTV, besides being an on camera reporter watched by over 3 million viewers a day, Kearse also worked for the MTV Radio Network hosting the channel's daily nationally syndicated newscast heard in 25 major markets.
Abbie's film credits include one of the principal interviewer of slain rapper / actor Tupac Shakur prominently featured in the Academy Award nominated documentary Tupac: Resurrection, which critics Ebert & Roeper gave "Two Thumbs Up!". She also received the film credit of consultant on the movie Biggie & Tupac in 2002.
Kearse created and produced a wide range of documentaries on music, politics and youth culture, including the award winning 1994 MTV News Special Report on Gangsta Rap, the "Choose or Lose '96" special Race and The Race, which examined race relations and the 1996 presidential election. In April of 1997, the critically acclaimed reporter and writer continued to tackle the topic of race in the investigative report Black & White TV. Matt Roush wrote in USA Today, "With an admirably level-headed approach, MTV News reporter Abbie Kearse examines the growing disparity in TV viewing habits between black and white audiences, pertinently asking if the ethnic sitcoms on fringe networks UPN and WB represent ghettoization or merely counter programming."
Prior to joining MTV, Abbie was a music correspondent for NBC Radio Networks, hosting the daily nationally syndicated music news program The Rock Report. In addition, a verified music junkie, Kearse has written reviews and features for many notable publications, including Newsday, VIBE, Essence, Billboard, Village Voice, and Emerge. While still attending college at the New York Institute of Technology in Old Westbury, New York, Kearse got her first break in broadcasting, working as radio disc jockey at the constant arbitron winning Long Island rock station WBAB-FM.
Outside of television and film, Kearse has also worked as a plus size model for the Lane Bryant V-Girl campaign in 1998 which was shot by the legendary fashion photographer Francesco Scavullo. Inspired she launched her own very successful trendy clothing line for full figured women called abbie lynn that was featured on CNN, MSNBC and "The View". Abbie was born in New York City and raised on Long Island where she currently resides.
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