Sonia Rincón
If her name sounds familiar, you may have heard her voice on New York's all-news radio station 1010 WINS, where she spent 15 years as an anchor and reporter while freelance reporting for New York-area television stations, before joining the Eyewitness News team full-time in May 2022.
Her broadcast journalism career began at Emerson College in Boston, where she served as news director for college radio station WERS-FM. Before returning home to New York, Sonia reported and anchored news for radio stations in Connecticut, Maine, Virginia and Pennsylvania including KYW Newsradio in Philadelphia.
Sonia earned numerous awards in her 20+ year radio career, including an Edward R. Murrow award for storm coverage of Ida in 2021.
She also has served as an adjunct lecturer at CUNY's Newmark Graduate School of Journalism.
Sonia has Colombian and Scottish heritage and is fluent in Spanish. When she's not working, Sonia enjoys theater and live music, fitness classes and cooking. She lives in the Bronx, is a die-hard Yankees fan and a proud alumna of LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and Performing Arts.
Sonia's Stories
Man arrested, community on edge after Brooklyn attempted kidnapping
The man is seen yanking the six-year-old boy from his father so hard that his feet come off the ground - but the boy's father never lost his grip.
Hispanic Federation says Latinos could be deciding factor in swing states this presidential election
Sixty percent of Latino voters cited inflation and cost of living as top issues this election according to a national poll by the Hispanic Federation.
National Ballet of Ukraine raising awareness and money for families affected by war with U.S. tour
While the Ukrainians fight the Russian invaders, these dancers are raising funds to pay for the war.
2 artists share their stories as their work gets featured in Brooklyn's Hall Street migrant shelter
One of the artists, 67-year-old Venezuelan former professor Roger Miranda, created abstract portraits of his journey and the immigrant experience.
Community calls for postpartum care changes after Black mother dies weeks after giving birth
Dreeah Austin, a 30-year-old Black mother from Newark, New Jersey, died suddenly this summer just a couple of weeks after giving birth at St. Barnabas Hospital.
Group in Lindenhurst mobilizes disaster relief efforts in wake of Hurricane Helene
As the death toll from continues to rise in the wake of Hurricane Helene, a group from Long Island is helping in the relief effort.
Possible dock workers strike looms as talks go on
The potential economic implications of a strike along the East Coast and the Gulf Coast are massive as at least 50,000 dockworkers threaten to walk off the job just after midnight on Tuesday.
NYPD says officer shot in friendly fire as police sought to subdue fare evader
A confrontation with a man beating a subway fare ended with a police officer, the suspect and two innocent bystanders shot.
Bride of victim killed in Hudson Parkway crash pleas for help to find wrong-way driver
Mayor Eric Adams is offering a reward to find the wrong-way driver responsible for a crash on the Henry Hudson Parkway that killed a groom and his cousin a day before the wedding.
Family, Bronx hospital in court battle over whether to keep woman declared brain dead alive
Amber Ebanks is on life support at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx several weeks after suffering a major stroke during surgery.