John Romero

As a child, I watched too much TV. Specifically, I watched too much CNN. Hours and hours of it. It probably explains why, so many years later, I still love reporting the news.

After graduating high school in Tulsa, Oklahoma, I moved across the country to New Haven, Connecticut to go to college at Yale. Don't ask me why, but I majored in Philosophy, and started writing for three tiny newspapers outside of Boston after graduation.

My first job in TV was working at a news magazine show, Dateline NBC, where I was a researcher and writer for the anchor, Stone Phillips. He also happened to be another Philosophy major from Yale. And yes, they actually thought it was a good idea if we worked together.

In 2002, I began my broadcasting career as a General Assignment Reporter at WCIV-TV in Charleston, South Carolina. Nine months later, I moved a few miles north to WCNC-TV in Charlotte, North Carolina. I stayed there for more than 3 years. During that time I covered Hurricane Isabelle from the Outer Banks, traveled with John Edwards on his first presidential campaign, and spent a week after Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans covering a medical mission from Charlotte.

2007 brought me to Denver, where I still love covering the news. It's been everything from Obama's acceptance speech at the DNC, to the Colorado Rockies World Series run. What makes the work special are the people I meet along the way. It's their stories I'm covering. And I hope I've done them justice.

My wife Julie and I have a beautiful new baby girl, Jessica Taylor, who usually provides the biggest headline of the day. Watching her grow up has been a joy. One rule though: she can't watch too much cable news.

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