Elizabeth Hashagen

Elizabeth Hashagen is a native Long Islander raised in Freeport and a graduate of Holy Trinity High School. She attended State University College at Cortland, the University of North London and took graduate classes at NYIT.

Elizabeth began her career in journalism at WLNY TV-55. As a reporter for the stations LIVE at 11 news cast, Elizabeth covered a wide variety of assignments including Hillary Clinton's Senate race against Rick Lazio.

Her dream was to return to News 12 Long Island, where she had interned during college. Her dream became reality in the winter of 2000 when she began reporting for News 12 Long Island. Elizabeth has brought a number of exclusive reports to viewers including her first exclusive reports of the Massapequa Strip Club Scandal and Missing Mastic Beach Mother Vinessa Hoera. Elizabeth also handled News 12's live network coverage of the days after Sept. 11 from Ground Zero.

Elizabeth is no stranger to hurricanes and snowstorms and has reported around the clock live from scenes of extreme weather. She is also called into the News 12 Long Island studios to anchor during breaking news on Long Island.

Elizabeth covers a wide variety of assignments including her weekly segments "Best of Long Island” and an adventure week where she jumped from airplanes, went rock climbing, race car driving, scuba diving and surfing around the Island.

Viewers have seen her energetic and interactive reporting style inside the cockpit as she flew with the Navy's Blue Angels; rappelled from the East Meadow water tower with Nassau County Emergency Services; was attacked by police K-9's; and went through EVOC, firearms and recruit training.

As a reporter and anchor, Elizabeth has proven to Long Island viewers that she is a competent and compelling journalist with a heart.

She won her first Emmy award in 2004 for her coverage of a continuing news story. Her six nominations in 2006 topped all other reporters and anchors in our area. She has gone on to win seven Emmys, two National Headliner Awards, two National Gabriel Awards, a National Clarion award, and was named a Top Female Journalist by the Newswomen's Club of New York. Elizabeth has gone on to win more than two dozen local and regional awards for her work, including multiple wins from the Associated Press and the Press Club of Long Island.

Elizabeth is a certified fitness instructor and enjoys spending time at her parent's summer home in Greenport. She also loves fishing, scuba diving and kayaking. Elizabeth and her husband Randy are the proud parents of a daughter, Allison Rae, born in 2008.