Michael Gargiulo

Anchor/Reporter

Updated 11:59 PM EST, Tue, Jul 28, 2009

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Michael Gargiulo currently serves as co-anchor of WNBC’s “Today in New York,” weekday mornings from 5-7AM. He joined the NBC4 news team in July 2006, as general assignment reporter covering a wide-range of news stories for the station.

Gargiulo earned an Emmy Award for his reporting from the Middle East. He spent time with a unit of the 10th Mountain Division outside Bagdad 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 an Emmy Award for his reports from the Middle East, a Pennsylvania Associated Press Award for feature reporting, and a Midwestern Regional Emmy Award nomination for “Live News Coverage.”

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