Michael Louis Gargiulo (born February 12, 1960) is an American television news anchor at

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’s flagship station. He has anchored ''

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'' with Darlene Rodriguez since 2008, and has been embedded with United States military units in

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, and the

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Early life and education

Gargiulo was born and raised in

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. He is of

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ancestry, the son of Mike and Dorothy Gargiulo. He has a sister, Susan Gargiulo. He graduated from Xavier High School and went on to attend

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, where he received a bachelor's degree in history and studied Italian, French, Russian, and German. He was an

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Career

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, NBC's affiliate in

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, hired Gargiulo in 1984 to host the local edition of the syndicated show ''

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''. He then worked as a reporter and anchor at

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, the

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affiliate in

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. In the early 1990s, he went to

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—then an

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affiliate; now part of CBS—as a reporter. From 1993 to 1997, he was a reporter and anchor at

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. He served as the

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, correspondent for

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from 1997 to 2000, and then anchored the morning newscast on

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, a

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-owned station in Washington, from 2000 to 2006. In July 2006, Gargiulo joined WNBC as a general assignment reporter and was then named anchor of ''Weekend Today'' in New York. In October 2007, he was named anchor of the station's 5:30pm newscast along with

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, and he replaced Rob Morrison as co-anchor of ''Today in New York'' in May 2008. At WNBC, he was also a co-host of ''Nonstop Rundown'', with Erika Tarantal and Tracie Strahan. As an anchor at WNBC, he has led coverage of many major news events, including

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's visit to the United States, the commissioning of the

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, President

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's visit to

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after Osama bin Laden's death, Hurricanes

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and

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, the

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' ticker-tape parade, the

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, the

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, and the death of Mayor

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. In 2014, he traveled to eastern Afghanistan to cover the last deployment of a unit of the United States Army's 10th Mountain Division. He reported on the same division in Iraq in 2007, and had also reported from Kuwait and Iraq in 2004. Gargiulo has occasionally appeared on the

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series ''

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'', playing a reporter.

Awards and honors

Gargiulo won an

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for breaking news coverage in 2009 for his reporting on a crane collapse on the

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. In 2010, he and Erika Tarantal won an Emmy for best morning newscast for ''Today in New York''. He won another breaking news Emmy in 2013, and in 2014, he and his WNBC colleagues won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Regional News Story–Spot News for their coverage of Hurricane Sandy. In September 2012, Gargiulo appeared with Lauren Calvo in a PSA for

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's Double Up 4 Vision event. In October 2012, he was the master of ceremonies for the Epiphany School Foundation's annual Walkathon and was honored by the organization, and the following year, the

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honored him for his reporting. In June 2016, the National Italian American Foundation launched a scholarship, the NIAF Michael Gargiulo Scholarship in Broadcasting and Communications.

Personal life

Gargiulo was a

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until he converted to

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in 2015. He married Shannon Powell on October 10, 1998. The couple has a son and a daughter. He is a teacher at the Center for Continuing Education in

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. On March 23, 2022, in his post on social media, he announced he had tested positive for

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, after they spending their vacation in

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in the previous week. He said that it was fully vaccinated and boosted from the virus.

Television

Career timeline

*1984–1987:

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reporter; ''

'' host *1987–1991:

anchor and reporter *1991–1993:

reporter *1993–1997:

reporter and anchor of weekend newscasts *1997–2000:

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White House correspondent *2000–2006:

anchor of weekday morning news *2006–present:

**2006–2007: general assignment reporter **2007: anchor of weekend morning newscasts **2007–2008: anchor of weekday 5:30 newscasts **2008: anchor of weekday 5:00 newscasts **2008–present: anchor of weekday morning newscasts **2010–2011: ''Nonstop Rundown'' host

References

External links

Michael Gargiulo's bio on NBC New York
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gargiulo, Michael American television journalists New York University alumni New York (state) television reporters Television anchors from New York City 1960 births Living people American male journalists Xavier High School (New York City) alumni American people of Italian descent