John Sharify took over as General Manager of SCCtv, Seattle Community Colleges Television, in January 2008. He comes to SCCtv, following nearly 18 years with Seattle's ABC affiliate KOMO TV, and a brief stint as a contributing reporter and/or producer for CBS 48 Hours, Seattle's PBS station KCTS, and the non-profit Hope Heart Institute. Sharify is the proud recipient of the 2008 National Edward R. Murrow Award for Writing, which honors the top broadcast news writer in the country. He also won the coveted National Murrow award for Writing in 2007, and 2004. He has been honored with six National Edward R. Murrows for his reporting work. While Sharify started his reporting career in New York City at WPIX TV 27 years ago, it is at KOMO where he grew as a journalist and delivered his signature stories that fed the soul and lifted the spirits of his viewers. A 31-time Regional Emmy winner and 119-time Emmy-nominated journalist, Sharify is serving in his third year as President of the Northwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, NATAS. Sharify is a proud graduate of Princeton University, where he majored in political science. Sharify also has a Master of Fine Arts degree in film directing from Columbia University.