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Bill McCreary Dies at 87; Blazed Trail for Black Journalists on TV He was hired at what became the Fox flagship station in New York in 1967, when there were few Black faces on the air, and became an Emmy-winning anchor. The veteran New York television journalist Bill McCreary in 2009.“The news directors suddenly realized, ‘Hey, we don’t have any connections in these Black communities,’” he said of his early days. “There were less than a handful of us on television back then.”Credit.Michael N. Todaro/FilmMagic, via Getty Images May 11, 2021 Bill McCreary, an Emmy Award-winning reporter who was one of the first Black television journalists in New York, and whose perspective helped fill a noticeable gap in local public affairs reporting, died on April 4 in Brooklyn. He was 87. ....