Bill Fitzgerald is a television news anchor and reporter. He anchors evening newscasts for WTVR in Richmond, VA and is a former MSNBC

MSNBC

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 overnight anchor. He was also the news anchor for WNCN

WNCN

WNCN is the NBC affiliate television station in the Triangle region of North Carolina , broadcasting on digital channel 17. It is licensed to Goldsboro, but its studios are just outside of downtown Raleigh...

 (NBC-17) with co-anchor Melanie Sanders and meteorologist Wes Hohenstein weeknights at 6, 7 and 11 pm. He was released from WNCN in December 2008, almost 2 years after joining, due to economic downsizing by parent company Media General. Prior to joining WNCN, Fitzgerald was an anchor for MSNBC

MSNBC

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. Prior to joining MSNBC, Fitzgerald served as weekend anchor and general assignment reporter for the NBC owned-and-operated station WVTM-TV in Birmingham, Alabama

Birmingham, Alabama

Birmingham is the largest city in Alabama. The city is the county seat of Jefferson County. According to the 2010 United States Census, Birmingham had a population of 212,237. The Birmingham-Hoover Metropolitan Area, in estimate by the U.S...

.
He previously served as reporter for the local cable news

News

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 network News 12 Long Island

Long Island

Long Island is an island located in the southeast part of the U.S. state of New York, just east of Manhattan. Stretching northeast into the Atlantic Ocean, Long Island contains four counties, two of which are boroughs of New York City , and two of which are mainly suburban...

, New York

New York

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. He was also an off-air reporter and associate
producer

Television producer

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 for the NBC

NBC

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 owned-and-operated WVIT-TV in Hartford, Connecticut

Hartford, Connecticut

Hartford is the capital of the U.S. state of Connecticut. The seat of Hartford County until Connecticut disbanded county government in 1960, it is the second most populous city on New England's largest river, the Connecticut River. As of the 2010 Census, Hartford's population was 124,775, making...

. Before starting his television career, Fitzgerald taught junior high and high school

High school

High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....

 level English in Rome, Italy and at Eton College

Eton College

Eton College, often referred to simply as Eton, is a British independent school for boys aged 13 to 18. It was founded in 1440 by King Henry VI as "The King's College of Our Lady of Eton besides Wyndsor"....

 in Great Britain.

History

Fitzgerald graduated cum laude from Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

 with a Bachelor of Arts

Bachelor of Arts

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 in English. He also holds a Master's Degree

Master of Arts (postgraduate)

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 in journalism

Journalism

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 from Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

. He and his wife Amy have a daughter, Ciara, and a son, Aidan.