Melissa Grace

Melissa Grace is a former court reporter for The New York Daily News. She was laid off in April 2012 as part of the tabloid’s ongoing realaignment under editor, Colin Myler. Grace accepted a job with New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s press shop. She be starting work as a deputy press secretary in his New York City office in August 2012. Prior to working at the Daily News, Grace worked at The Albany Times Union, where she covered courts and crime. At the Times Union, she as perhaps best known for covering the trial of four NYPD officers who shot and killed an unarmed Guinean immigrant, Amadou Diallo, in a barrage of 41 bullets in the vestibule of his apartment in the Soundview section of the Bronx back in February 1999. Grace worked at the Daily News for 12 years. While at the Daily News, she covered education, the NYPD, the Manhattan DA’s office, Brooklyn and Queens news and the attacks of 9/11. In accepting the job at the Attorney General's press office, Grace wasn't replacing anybody, per se, although the position that was held by Danny Kanner, who departed in April 2012 to work on the Obama campaign. Mr. Kanner's position was unfilled until Grace joined the press office.