Dan Bowens
Dan is the Weekend Anchor and three-time Emmy Award winning reporter at FOX flagship station, WNYW-TV in New York.
He is also the host of a true crime podcast called “The Tape Room With Dan Bowens.” In addition, he also writes and helps produce FOX 5's Emmy nominated series, “Jazz Stories.”
In 2018, Dan was part of a team at WNYW that won a New York Emmy for a special report on Autism. In 2015, Dan was nominated for a NY Emmy Award for General Assignment Reporting. He also helped launch three other Emmy Nominated series at the station, “The Big Idea,” “FOX Docs” and “FOX 5 Films.”
Prior to working with FOX 5 in New York City, Dan worked at WRAL-TV in Raleigh, NC where he won two regional Emmy Awards. He also worked at WINK-TV in Fort Myers, Florida and KEPR-TV in the Tri-Cities, Washington.
Dan has been active in the community, volunteering his time at schools and other community organizations. He has also served as Master of Ceremonies for numerous events, including at the famed Apollo Theatre in Harlem, and the annual Cultural Awareness Salute Gala with the Black Culinary Association.
A New Jersey native, Dan, his wife, and their three children call the Garden State home.
The latest from Dan Bowens
Fans of slain rapper Pop Smoke angry over cover art for upcoming album
Fans are angry over the album cover for the new posthumous album from rapper Pop Smoke.
Diversity in newsrooms becomes focus during coverage of George Floyd protests
The coverage of protests over the death of George Floyd and police brutality are raising questions about diversity in newsrooms across America.
Online extra-curricular gym classes provide a measure of routine
It is unclear when gyms, dojos, and other facilities like this will be allowed to fully reopen. In the meantime, they are offering pay-what-you-can classes online.
Family asks for return of gold cross worn by Army vet as he died
Steve and Teresa Esposito had the type of story that might inspire a love song. He was just out of the Army when the young couple met and moved to Brooklyn where they remained married for 70 years.
The Carmine Galante Assassination | The Tape Room
The Tape Room revisits the assassination of mob boss Carmine "The Cigar" Galante in Brooklyn in 1979.
NJ lawmakers create tax law ‘work-around’ to help small businesses
Lawmakers in New Jersey are attempting to pass a "work-around" to the state's 2017 tax law in order to help small businesses.
Revisiting the deadly Stouffer's Inn fire of 1980 | The Tape Room
A fire tore through the Stouffer's Inn in Harrison, N.Y., on a cold morning of Dec. 4, 1980. Within minutes, 26 people were dead. A hotel employee was put on trial. He was accused of setting the fire so he could then act the hero and extinguish it. But is that really what happened?
Break in the Case: The Baby Hope Murder
It was July 23, 1991. Three men were working in Inwood Hill Park, not far from the Henry Hudson Bridge, when they found a cooler.
NYPD unveils new true crime podcast
A notorious 1991 murder, known as the “Baby Hope” case is one of several cases being revisited as part of a first-of-its-kind true crime podcast by the NYPD called “Break in the Case.”
'Break in the Case': NYPD detectives launch their own true-crime podcast
The NYPD is producing its own true-crime podcast—the first type of project like this from the largest police force in the country. Break in the Case will eventually feature three different crimes.