Erika Tarantal
General Assignment Reporter
Updated 11:59 PM EST, Tue, Jul 28, 2009
Erika Tarantal serves as co-anchor for “Weekend Today in New York” and as a general assignment reporter filing stories for various News 4 New York newscasts during the week. Tarantal joined WNBC as a general assignment reporter in December 2007.
Tarantal came to WNBC from NBC owned WVIT-TV in Hartford, Connecticut where she served as a general assignment reporter beginning in October 2005. Prior to that, Tarantal rose through the ranks at News 12 in the Bronx where she began as a general assignment reporter and then was promoted to anchor of the station’s weekday morning newscast. Tarantal also served previously as a production assistant at WHDH-TV in Boston, Massachusetts. Before getting her start in broadcasting, Tarantal was a paralegal for the Office of the Attorney General in Boston.
Tarantal graduated from Connecticut College where she earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Government.
First Published: Oct 22, 2008 3:16 PM EST
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