Status married Name Erika Tarantal | Education Connecticut College | |
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Occupation Anchor/Reporter at WCVB Similar People Lauren Scala, Darlene Rodriguez, Contessa Brewer Profiles | ||
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Erika Tarantal (born September 8, 1979) is a principal anchor/reporter for WCVB in Boston. She can be seen weekdays anchoring the midday news at noon. Tarantal also reports for NewsCenter 5 Eyeopener. She also contributes to the station's newsmagazine program Chronicle.
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- Career
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Wcvb eyeopener welcomes back erika tarantal 06 18 2015
Personal
Tarantal was raised in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania.
As mentioned on Sunday Today in New York on April 3, 2011, she is a vegetarian. Married to Lucas Nathan, Tarantal gave birth to her first child in the Spring of 2012.
Education
She obtained her bachelor's degree in government from Connecticut College.
Career
Prior to joining WCVB in February 2014; Tarantal served as co-anchor for WNBC's News 4 New York at 6pm and 11pm on weekends and as a General Assignment Reporter filing stories for various News 4 New York newscasts during the week. Tarantal left WNBC in January, 2014. In January 2017 She joined WCVB's News magazine Chronicle as a reporter.
Tarantal joined WNBC as a general assignment reporter in December 2007.
In October 2005, she was employed at WVIT in Hartford, Connecticut, where she served as a weekend evening anchor and weekday General Assignment Reporter. Before her career in broadcast journalism, she worked as a paralegal for the Office of the Attorney General in Boston.
Family
Tarantal is the daughter of Stephen M. Tarantal, a painter and dean of the College of Art and Design at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Her mother, Elsa Johnson, is a sculptor and a professor at the same university.