Michael Gargiulo

Michael Gargiulo is co-anchor of WNBC’s "Today in New York," weekday mornings from 4:30-7 a.m.

Gargiulo joined the NBC New York team in July 2006 as general assignment reporter covering a wide-range of news stories for the station.

He earned an Emmy Award for his reporting from the Middle East. He spent time with a unit of the 10th Mountain Division outside Baghdad profiling female soldiers for a five-part series entitled "Women in Combat."

Gargiulo and photographer Neil Astrow also spent two weeks traveling throughout Kuwait and into the Persian Gulf where they told the story of New York-area service men and women involved with vital missions that support the fighting troops.

Stories ranged from guarding Iraq's oil terminals to caring for wounded and sick soldiers at Kuwait's military hospital. The five-part special was titled "Our Troops, Your Neighbors." 

Gargiulo joined WNBC from WTTG-TV in Washington, D.C., where he served as weekday morning news anchor. Prior to that, he worked at Hearst-Argyle Television as a Washington, D.C., correspondent. Before that, he served as anchor/reporter at KSTP-TV in Minneapolis, MN; WLKY-TV, Louisville, KY; WYOU-TV, Scranton, PA; and WSAZ-TV, Huntington, WV.

Gargiulo has garnered numerous awards and nominations for his work including three Emmy Awards and a New York State Broadcasters Association Award for his coverage of the arrival of the USS New York at the World Trade Center site. 

A native New Yorker and graduate of Xavier High School and New York University, Gargiulo resides in Westchester with his wife and two children.

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