On Sunday March 26, 2017, I had an opportunity to visit NBC Connecticut headquarters in West Hartford, Connecticut, interviewing, meeting and watching behind the scenes with news anchor, Todd Piro.

Todd Piro is currently the weekend morning anchor and weekday reporter on NBC Connecticut Today Weekend. I got a chance to interview him and discuss his career and how he became a TV journalist.

Before coming to NBC Connecticut in April 3, 2012, Todd worked at KPSP in Palm Springs, California, where he was the weekday morning anchor.

Being a journalist was not Todd’s first choice in his career. Prior to his television career, he was a lawyer in California.

Todd graduated from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. I asked him what attracted him to journalism.

He replied with “It’s something I always wanted to do, it’s always been in the back of my mind and I had a different career before this. I was actually a lawyer, but this was something I always wanted to do, and it’s one of those things you only live once, take your shot when you’re young. I was a little bit older but I was still on the other side of 40 so I was like let me go for it and try it!”

Before switching over to the weekend mornings, Todd was the weekday morning anchor and I asked if he missed anchoring weekdays.

“ I needed the reporting experience. I didn’t have any reporting experience; you know that’s important because that’s what makes you a good anchor, and I needed to get a little more because I’d been promoted up through the morning anchor route pretty quickly at both places i worked, but I’m glad I have the reporting too sorta round me out and make me more valuable as we grow in this business”

He also described a typical work day.  “

Well I get in here. As you saw there aren’t a lot of people in the studio so we all have to assume like extra duties; so basically what I try to do is, I try to serve the role as the executive producer to the extent of reading and deciding making sure we are covering the right things and stuff like that, Typically during the week, there is an executive producer, The producer do a really nice job of picking the stories, so I don’t have much to do, What I do is I review all the script, make sure they are proper and accurate”

Overall it was a great experience seeing what happens behind of the scenes of a newscast and meeting the anchor, meteorologist, and producers.