Jeff Chirico
has
been part of Team Tempo!
since its
inception in Spring 1999.
He
report
s for
Tempo! and host
s
Tempo! Extra Wednesday
nights at 7:30 and LV @ Work, a quarterly aired
workforce program.
Jeff began his
reporting
career at Blue Ridge Cable in
the
Poconos and later worked for Channel
5 Berks County News in Reading.
Jeff has won three
Mid-Atlantic Emmy Awards from
the National Television Academy for producing and writing
the documentaries Hollywood on Hamilton: Remembering
Hess's (2002);
Bethlehem Steel, The People Who Built America
(2003); and Make
a Joyful Noise: The Bach Choir of Bethlehem (2004) Bethlehem
Steel also won the prestigious Edward R. Murrow award
in the large market category.
A Bucks County
native, Jeff graduated
from Bishop Egan High School and the University of
Scranton. When
not reporting, you'll find him in the
classroom teaching public speaking at Lehigh Carbon Community College.