Michael Gargiulo Biography
Michael Louis Gargiulo is an American television news anchor for NBC’s flagship station, WNBC (News 4 New York). He has been anchoring Today in New York with Darlene Rodriguez since 2008.
Michael Gargiulo Age
Michael Gargiulo Education
He graduated from Xavier High School and later attended New York University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in history and studied Italian, French, Russian, and German.
Michael Gargiulo Family- Parents
Gargiulo was born and grew up in Manhattan, New York. He is Mike and Dorothy Gargiulo’s son and has Italian descent. He has a sister named Susan Gargiulo.
Michael Gargiulo Wife- Spouse
He married Shannon Powell on October 10, 1998. The pair has both a son and a daughter. He is a teacher.
Michael Gargiulo Career
In 1984, WSAZ, NBC’s station in Charleston, West Virginia, hired Gargiulo to host the local edition of the syndicated show PM Magazine. He later worked as a reporter and anchor for WYOU, a CBS affiliate in Scranton, PA. In the early 1990s, he worked as a reporter for WLKY in Louisville, Kentucky, which was then an ABC affiliate and is now owned by CBS. From 1993 until 1997, he worked as a reporter and anchor for KSTP-TV in Minneapolis. He worked as a Washington, D.C. correspondent for Hearst-Argyle Television from 1997 to 2000, and then as the morning news anchor for WTTG, a Fox-owned station in Washington, from 2000 to 2006. Gargiulo began working as a general assignment reporter for WNBC in July 2006 before becoming the anchor of Weekend Today in New York.
Gargiulo began working as a general assignment reporter for WNBC in July 2006 before becoming the anchor of Weekend Today in New York. In October 2007, he was chosen anchor of the station’s 5:30pm newscast alongside Sue Simmons, and in May 2008, he replaced Rob Morrison as co-anchor of Today in New York. At WNBC, he co-hosted Nonstop Rundown with Erika Tarantal and Tracie Strahan. As an anchor at WNBC, he has led coverage of many major news events, including Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to the United States, the commissioning of the USS New York, President Barack Obama’s visit to Ground Zero following the death of Osama bin Laden, Hurricanes Irene and Sandy, the New York Giants’ ticker-tape parade.
In 2014, he traveled to eastern Afghanistan to chronicle the final deployment of a regiment from the US Army’s 10th Mountain Division. He reported on the same division in Iraq in 2007 and has previously reported from Kuwait and Iraq.
Gargiulo has occasionally featured on Nickelodeon’s Team Umizoomi, as a reporter.Gargiulo received an Emmy Award for breaking news coverage in 2009 for his reporting on a crane collapse on the Upper East Side. In 2010, he and Erika Tarantal won an Emmy for the best morning newscast for Today in NYC. He won another Emmy for breaking news in 2013, and in 2014, he and his WNBC colleagues won an Emmy for Outstanding Regional News Story-Spot News for their coverage of Hurricane Sandy.
Michael Gargiulo Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of 3 million dollars.
