Magee Hickey Biography
A native of Brooklyn, New York Magee Hickey an Emmy awarding American journalist working as a reporter for PIX11. She joined the station in 2011.
Hickey graduated from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. She also attended The Convent of the Sacred Heart and The Chapin School.
Magee Hickey PIX11
Hickey works as a reporter at PIX11. She began her journalism career at the university. She became popular while working at WLNE-TV after she went undercover as a hooker to “rid a nice residential neighborhood of prostitution.”
Magee went on to work at WNEW and WABC and while at WNBC, became the first anchor of the highly successful Weekend Today in New York program.
Hickey spent years on the pre-dawn patrol at WCBS, getting up to 2 a.m. to cover the news of the day. This schedule allowed her to raise her two daughters and to care for her aging and ailing parents.
Magee Hickey Age
Hickey was born on 12 June 1955. She is 65 years old as of 2020.
Magee Hickey Parents
Hickey is the daughter of Lawrence F. Hickey and Jean Hogan. Her father worked as a vice president of Fredric M. Reed & Company, a New York real estate brokerage firm. Her mother on the other side was an actress.
Magee Hickey Husband
Hickey is married to her husband S. Richolson Salembier. She and Salembier got married on May 21, 1983, at St. Vincent Ferrer Roman Catholic Church.
Her husband, Richolson is the son of Harold P. Salembier of Oyster Bay and East Hampton, L.I., and the late Mary Lathrop Salembier. He works as assistant vice president of Frank B. Hall & Company, a New York insurance concern.
Richolson graduated from the Buckley School, the Canterbury School, and Stanford University.
Magee Hickey Children
Hickey and her husband Richolson, have two children together; daughters. At the time this article was written there was no available information about her daughters. They have managed to live a private life away from the public. She and her husband, however, have a grandson, named Knox from their daughter.
Magee Hickey Salary
It is not yet known how much Hickey earns as a reporter for PIX11. We will update this information as soon as it is available.
Magee Hickey Music
Hickey had a fear of singing in public and she faced her fear over the years by taking a cabaret singing class at the 92nd Street Y. She is an accomplished classical flutist.
Magee Hickey Community Service
Hickey is very devoted to community service as much as she is passionate about her television career.
Over the years, Magee has organized cabaret fundraisers involving many PIX reporters and anchors singing and dancing. These organized cabaret fundraisers are to raise money for the Lawrence F. Hickey Center for Child Development.
Lawrence F. Hickey Center for Child Development is a school founded by her late father for special needs children in the Bronx.