By Clarence McKee
NBC Anchor Trina Robinson was one of eight persons awarded the 2024 Silver Circle Award by the Suncoast Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The annual recognition is given to individuals who have worked with distinction in the television industry within the Suncoast Region, which includes the State of Florida, the State of Louisiana, the Mobile, Alabama-Pensacola, Florida television markets, as well as Puerto Rico.
Trina is an Emmy® award-winning journalist. She currently anchors the NBC6 News at 7 pm, co-anchors the NBC6 News at 11 pm, and hosts “Money Chat” on the station’s streaming platforms. She joined NBC6 in 1999 and has become one of the station’s most visible and versatile journalists, proving her talents to South Florida viewers as an experienced anchor, reporter, meteorologist, talk show host, and breaking news specialist. Robinson also hails as the first African American to ever hold a TV weather position in South Florida and has garnered three Emmy® awards for reporting and one Green Eye Shade Award for Investigative Journalism.
As part of the award-winning NBC6 Investigators team, Robinson demonstrated her commitment to excellence in journalism when she uncovered an underground network of women illegally giving and receiving silicone injections. The investigation led to a number of arrests of unlicensed medical practitioners, garnering national and international attention. Robinson received a liberal arts degree from the College of Notre Dame in Baltimore, a graduate degree in Journalism and Public Affairs from the American University in Washington, D.C., and did her coursework in Meteorology at Mississippi State University.
Most recently, she received an MBA from Western Governors University in Utah. Robinson, who comes from a family of six children, says one of their favorite pastimes was to gather together to tell elaborate and colorful stories. Little did she know that concocting tall tales would later help her relate the stories of real people with compassion and caring.