In addition, Newman hosts the network’s Yankees Magazine program which goes behind the scenes and in the community with the Yankees, and hosts YES’ Bad Boy Mowers Pinstripe Bowl college football coverage. She previously had served as YES’ Yankees clubhouse reporter and its sideline reporter for Ivy League football and New York Football Sunday.

Since 2019, Newman has served as emcee of the New York State Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremonies in Troy, NY. Newman has won seven New York Emmy Awards while at YES. She was a member of the YES team which was nominated for two Emmys in the Live Sporting Event Season category in 2025.

Prior to joining the YES Network, Newman held a variety of sports broadcasting positions with the CNN Networks from 1992 to 2002. She hosted CNN Sports Tonight and Latenight as well as CNN Sports Sunday and CNN’s Goodwill Games Preview. Newman also hosted and worked on programs for CNN’s sister networks, including CNN Sports/Illustrated and CNN Headline News for which she anchored sports. She served as an occasional reporter for CNN’s weekly MLB and NFL preview programs and appeared as a panelist on CNN’s Burden of Proof discussing the NHL. In 2000, she hosted Turner Sports’ Emmy-Award-winning coverage of the NHL Atlanta Thrashers inaugural season.

Newman also worked for NBC, having served as an events reporter for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. Newman came to CNN from The Sports Network (TSN), where she worked from 1990-1992 covering Major League Baseball, the NFL, the NHL and horse racing. Newman’s reporting there garnered a 1991 Sovereign Award for Outstanding Broadcast.

In 2019, Newman emceed the National Down Syndrome Society’s (NDSS) annual gala as it partnered with the Professional Baseball Athletic Trainers Society (PBATS) at Gotham Hall in New York City. In 2015, Newman emceed The Green Sports Alliance Awards at Yankee Stadium honoring the New York Yankees for their dedication to environmental leadership.

Newman earned a Bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Toronto which, awarded her its Boundless Voice honor in 2011.