Chris Pollone - Reporter
Email: cpollone@wvtm.com
Chris Pollone is a general assignment reporter for NBC13 News. He joined the station in November 2000.
Since arriving at NBC 13, Chris has covered a variety of stories throughout the Southeast. Some of the most memorable include the 2000 Tuscaloosa tornado, the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing trials, and the 2004 Alabama Governor's election.
While those stories certainly stand out, Chris says none has affected him more than Hurricane Katrina. He spent several days reporting from the Gulf Coast in the days following the storm, reporting stories of destruction, determination, and redemption.
Chris loves being a TV reporter because every day offers a chance to meet new and interesting people throughout the state.
Before joining NBC 13, Chris spent four years as a reporter, producer and anchor at WJTV, the CBS affiliate in Jackson, Miss. There, Chris led his station's coverage of the state flag controversy and the 1999 Governor's election -- a race so close it had to be decided by the State House of Representatives two months after Election Day. Needless to say, Chris was ready a year later when the Presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore played out in nearly the same way!
While in Jackson, the Radio-Television News Directors Foundation awarded Chris the Geller Fellowship, a national award for excellence in on-air television talent.
He also won a Mississippi Associated Press award for his special report "Beating the Train."
Chris has more than a decade of broadcast news experience.
He got his "big break" in broadcasting at WCCM-AM in Lawrence, Mass., a radio station owned by the late Hall-of-Fame sportscaster, Curt Gowdy. For three summers, Chris worked there as an anchor, producer, and reporter. It was at WCCM, working alongside Massachusetts radio legend, Bruce Arnold, that Chris honed his reporting skills and decided journalism was his life's true calling.
Chris graduated with degrees in broadcast journalism and political science from the Newhouse School at Syracuse University in Syracuse, N.Y -- just a five-hour drive from his hometown of North Andover, Mass.
When he's not talking or reading about news, Chris can usually be found cheering on his favorite sports teams: the Boston Red Sox, Bruins, and Celtics, the New England Patriots and the Syracuse Orange.
Besides news and sports, Chris enjoys digital photography, Saab cars, music (U2, Skynyrd, Better Than Ezra), and watching NBC's 'The Office.' He also cooks like Emeril Lagasse.
Chris lives in Birmingham. Click here to read Chris' blog, 'Pollone Alone.'
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