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Less than 24 hours after the Manhattan District Attorney cleared him of all rape allegations, WNYW/Channel 5 morning co-anchor Greg Kelly is set to resume his broadcasting career. The Daily News reports Kelly met with station management at 4 p.m. today, and a spokeswoman confirmed to FishbowlNY that he agreed to return this Friday on Good Day New York opposite Rosanna Scotto.  

Kelly has been off Good Day since January 26, when a woman’s accusation of rape plastered print and broadcast outlets alike.

Kelly has been teamed with Scotto on the Channel 5 morning newscast since 2008.

In a statement yesterday,  Kelly thanked friends and family for their support during the ordeal, and singled out Scotto for standing by her on-air husband.

Scotto summed up her feeling in a tweet today, “It is a GOOD day NY!”

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Greg Kelly, the WNYW/Channel 5 Good Day New York co-anchor, and son of NYPD commissioner Ray Kelly, has been cleared of rape by the Manhattan District Attorney’s office.

Kelly said in a statement, “I am thankful that the investigation established what I’ve known all along, that I am innocent of the allegations that were waged against me.”

Kelly’s attorney Andrew Lankler met with Martha Bashford, the chief sex crimes prosecutor for Manhattan D.A. Cyrus Vance Jr.  The allegations against Kelly, it was determined, did not meet the grounds for criminal prosecution.  

Kelly has been absent from his Good Day post since the allegations first surfaced two weeks ago. A paralegal, reportedly between 28 and 30 years old, accused Kelly of rape after meeting for drinks at a South Street Seaport bar in October.

But with evidence that included text messages, bar receipts, and telephone records, Bashford concluded a crime never occured.  

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Helen Gurley Brown, the editor of Cosmopolitan for 31 years, has donated a total of $30 million to Stanford and Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. Stanford will get $12 million and Columbia will get $18 million — the largest donation ever received by the journalism school — to establish the David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation.

The organization will be designed with the hopes of promoting media innovation and supporting the marriage of technology and journalism.

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It’s the “he said-she said” case that has captivated a city. Greg Kelly, son of the NYPD’s commissioner, was accused of rape last week. Kelly hasn’t returned to his anchoring duties on Good Day New York on WNYW/Channel 5 since the bombshell exploded.

There are some new alleged details. Reports say Kelly and the woman (by one account 29, by others 30 years old) had the October 8 tryst at Jeremy’s Ale House located at the South Street Seaport.

Gothamist reports Kelly claims to have flirtatious text messages from the unidentified woman after the encounter, including lines like: “Was it as nice for you?” and “Do you want to do it again?”

The New York Post delves deeper, saying the texts exchanged before and after the alleged rape were explicit in nature. The source telling the Post: “They talked about what they wanted to do to each other. It was two days of foreplay.”

The Manhattan District Attorney’s office is expected to make quick work of the case.  The Daily News has learned the probe could be wrapped up by the end of the week, but “no later than next week.”

WNYW anchor Greg Kelly remained MIA from his Good Day New York anchor post today. He’s accused of raping a 30-year-old woman who reportedly works for a law firm in the Wall Street area. Kelly has an apartment in nearby Battery Park City.

The Daily News, citing sources, says Kelly, the son of NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly, has “flirtatious” text messages from the woman, indicating that their encounter was consensual and for a “sexual purpose.”  The woman and Kelly, according to multiple reports, met for drinks October 8 at the South Street Seaport. The duo continued at the woman’s office, the Daily News has learned, because her boyfriend was home.

According WABC/Channel 7, the woman’s much older boyfriend allegedly was jealous after noticing messages between her and Kelly.

The New York Post reports the woman got pregnant from their drunken rendezvous and subsequently had an abortion.

Kelly, who served in the Marines for a dozen years, vehemently denied the rape claim through his lawyer. Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance’s office is investigating the matter.

Greg Kelly, the co-anchor of the WNYW/Channel 5 morning newscast Good Day New York, has been accused of rape. Kelly is the son of New York City Police Department Commissioner Ray Kelly.

According to the Daily News, Kelly’s accuser told police that she met the anchorman October 8 for drinks at the South Street Seaport before Kelly, 43, assaulted her at the law firm where she works.

The Daily News says the woman, who is around 30 years old, waited to report the allegations until Tuesday night at the 13th Precinct.

Kelly’s lawyer, Andrew M. Lankler vehemently denied the accusation in a statement last night:

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5. The New York Observer is Going National

 

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According to the latest “Year in News” study by The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ), the economy was the most-covered news story of 2011. The story made up 20 percent of news time across all platforms, and easily beat out the runner-up — Middle East unrest — which made up 12 percent of all news stories.

The next biggest story was the 2012 election, at nine percent, followed by several major events — the Japan earthquake and tsunami, Osama bin Laden’s death, the attack on Gabrielle Giffords — making up about two to three percent of all the news in 2011.

The economy being the lead news story of the year shows that we, as a culture, are (somehow) doing just fine. The biggest story wasn’t Charlie Sheen, it wasn’t people crying about there not being an iPhone 5, it wasn’t Casey Anthony and it wasn’t even Kate Middleton’s butt.

We’re doing okay, America. We’re doing okay.