Meet Lauren Scala
4x Emmy Award winning television host, reporter and producer.
Her smart, fun, and down to earth approach to the job has landed her gigs hosting everything from NBC’s national travel show “1st Look” to co-hosting “Beat Bobby Flay” on Food Network. She was tapped to host the first ever live awards ceremony for “North America’s 50 Best Restaurants” and has appeared in campaigns for Conde Nast Traveler, Nutri Grain, Ford, and more.
Meet Lauren Scala
4x Emmy Award winning television host, reporter and producer.
Her smart, fun, and down to earth approach to the job has landed her gigs hosting everything from NBC’s national travel show “1st Look” to co-hosting “Beat Bobby Flay” on Food Network. She was tapped to host the first ever live awards ceremony for “North America’s 50 Best Restaurants” and has appeared in campaigns for Conde Nast Traveler, Nutri Grain, Ford, and more.
Lauren has been a mainstay on NBC’s flagship station in New York City for more than 17 years covering a variety of beats. Since 2011, she has been a correspondent for the weekday lifestyle show New York Live, where she reports on a wide variety of what the Big Apple has to offer, especially the city’s vibrant restaurant scene. Her feature stories can also be seen on New York City’s Taxi TVs.
Her presence continues to grow in an ever-changing media landscape through exciting and unique opportunities like being chosen as the first ever “Adventurer in Residence” for Exodus Adventure Travels, where she was sent around the world for 50 days to document her experience for the brand on social media. She was selected by Conde Nast Traveler to be the face of a campaign partnership with Nutri Grain and in the fall of 2025, she served as the mistress of ceremonies for the inaugural “North America’s 50 Best Restaurants” Awards Ceremony in Las Vegas. She is also the face and voice of the 2025 New York Mets hype video, which is played for the crowds at Citi Field before every home game.
Throughout her career
She has interviewed thousands of people from high profile celebrities, famous chefs, iconic fashion designers, pro athletes, and musicians to everyday local business owners. Well-known for her food and dining coverage, New York Magazine even featured her in their notable “Grub Street Diet” series. She has also been featured in the New York Times, NY Daily News, The New Yorker Magazine, Moves Magazine, W 42nd St Magazine, Road Warriors and more.
.From 2010-2022, she was an integral part of NBC New York’s morning news team as the traffic/transit anchor on Today in NY where she clocked countless hours of live TV. During that time, she also hosted “Listen Up,” the first made-for-Instagram daily mini-cast in the country produced by a local news outlet, which went on to be recognized by the Cronkite News Lab for innovation in local news. She was the face of the first ever live interactive trivia game on local news and anchored the St. Patrick’s Day Parade broadcast on NBC New York for half a decade. She’s hosted shows about Broadway, pop music and the first local reality fitness competition show for NBC’s former digital channel NY Nonstop.
Lauren is quite passionate about stories relating to conservation for both wildlife and the environment and has been nominated for multiple Emmys for her storytelling in this genre.
In the very early days of her career, she worked behind the scenes doing PR and events for DreamWorks Pictures, Paramount Pictures, and MGM. She also spent several years at Time Out NY Magazine as a video producer, eventually transitioning to on-air host for their broadband channel Time Out NY on Demand in 2007.
She is a graduate of Fordham University.
Throughout her career
She has interviewed thousands of people from high profile celebrities, famous chefs, iconic fashion designers, pro athletes, and musicians to everyday local business owners. Well-known for her food and dining coverage, New York Magazine even featured her in their notable “Grub Street Diet” series. She has also been featured in the New York Times, NY Daily News, The New Yorker Magazine, Moves Magazine, W 42nd St Magazine, Road Warriors and more.
.From 2010-2022, she was an integral part of NBC New York’s morning news team as the traffic/transit anchor on Today in NY where she clocked countless hours of live TV. During that time, she also hosted “Listen Up,” the first made-for-Instagram daily mini-cast in the country produced by a local news outlet, which went on to be recognized by the Cronkite News Lab for innovation in local news. She was the face of the first ever live interactive trivia game on local news and anchored the St. Patrick’s Day Parade broadcast on NBC New York for half a decade. She’s hosted shows about Broadway, pop music and the first local reality fitness competition show for NBC’s former digital channel NY Nonstop.
Lauren is quite passionate about stories relating to conservation for both wildlife and the environment and has been nominated for multiple Emmys for her storytelling in this genre.
In the very early days of her career, she worked behind the scenes doing PR and events for DreamWorks Pictures, Paramount Pictures, and MGM. She also spent several years at Time Out NY Magazine as a video producer, eventually transitioning to on-air host for their broadband channel Time Out NY on Demand in 2007.
She is a graduate of Fordham University.
