Erika Tarantal Biography
Erika Tarantal is an American Emmy award-winning journalist, anchor and reporter currently working as a news anchor and reporter at WCVB Channel 5 in Boston, Massachusetts. She co-anchors WCVB’s Midday news at noon. She is also a contributing reporter for WCVB’s award-winning local news magazine, Chronicle. Before joining WCVB, she served as the weekend anchor and main fill-in co-anchor at WNBC News 4 New York, NBC’s flagship station in New York City.
Erika Tarantal Education
Erika studied at Connecticut College where she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Government.
Erika Tarantal Age | Birthday
How old is Erika? She is 42 years old as of 2021. She was born September 8, 1979, in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America. Her birthday is always celebrated on 8th September of every year. ALSO READ: Sera Congi
Erika Tarantal Nationality | Ethnicity
Tarantal holds American nationality and citizenship by birth. She was born and raised in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, United States. She is of White ethnicity/heritage.
Erika Tarantal Height | Measurements
Erika stands at an average height of 5 feet 4 inches (1.62 m). Information regarding her other body measurements is currently under review.
Erika Tarantal Family
Erika is the daughter of (father) Stephen M. Tarantula and (mother) Elsa Johnson. She was born and raised in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania by her parents. Her father is a painter and dean of the College of Arts and Design at the University of Arts in Philadelphia while her mother is a sculptor and a professor at the University of Arts in Philadelphia. However, details regarding her siblings is currently not available.
Erika Tarantal Husband | Wedding
Is Erika married? Erika is currently married to her husband Lucas Nathan. The couple got married on January 9, 2010, at the University of Arts in Philadelphia hall. The couples are proud parents to two children, a son born in March 2012 and a daughter born in 2015.
Erika Tarantal Salary
Erika currently working as a news anchor and reporter at WCVB Channel 5 in Boston, Massachusetts earns an estimated annual salary of $88,500.
Erika Tarantal Net Worth
Tarantal is an American Emmy award-winning journalist, anchor and reporter who has an estimated net worth $1 million.
Erika Tarantal Leaves WCVB
Where is Erika? Erika currently serves as a news anchor and reporter at WCVB. Information regarding if she is leaving the station is currently not yet available. However, we will update her departure information once confirmed available in the public.
Erika Tarantal WCVB | Wikipedia
Erika is an Emmy Award-winning journalist currently serving as a news anchor and reporter at WCVB Channel 5 in Boston, Massachusetts. She works as a co-anchor of the WCVB’s Midday news at noon. She also serves as a contributing reporter for WCVB’s award-winning local news magazine, Chronicle.
Prior to joining WCVB, she worked as a weekend anchor at News 4 New York, NBC’s flagship station in New York. She also worked as the main weekday morning newscast fill-in co-anchor of “Today in New York,” at WNBC, in New York. While there, she covered great stories including the death of Pope John Paul II and the election of Pope Benedict to hours of coverage during Superstorm Sandy and the tragic shootings in Newtown, CT.
Tarantal joined News 4 New York in December 2007 as a general assignment reporter. Before joining NBC 4, she worked as a general assignment reporter at WVIT-TV in Hartford since October 2005. Before that, Tarantal worked through various roles at News 12 in the Bronx where she began as a general assignment reporter before being promoted to anchor of the station’s weekday morning newscast. She also worked as as a production assistant at WHDH-TV in Boston. Beside news, she served as a paralegal for the Office of the Attorney General in Boston.