Patrice Wood Biography
Patrice is an American journalist who works as the primary news anchor for WJAR, NBC’s partner in Providence, Rhode Island. She as well serves as an education reporter and airs the Tuesday’s Child program.
Patrice Wood Age
Wood was born and grew up in Rockford, Ohio, the United States of America.
Patrice Wood Education
Patrice completed with a bachelor of science degree in journalism from Bowling Green State University in Ohio, and also an honorary doctorate in communications from Roger Williams University.
Patrice Wood Husband
She is wife to Paul Pabis, who serves at WBZ-TV as the director of operations and engineering. She’s blessed with two children, Stephanie and Jonathan.
Patrice Wood NBC News
Patrice started her profession at NBC 10 as a street reporter in 1980 and has labored her way to anchoring the weekday newscasts at 5 p.m., 6 p.m., and 11 p.m. She has bagged several volunteer and professional awards, among them the prestigious Silver Circle Award from the New England Chapter of the National Academy of TV Arts and Sciences, and was trained into the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame, the state’s highest civilian honor.
Patrice Wood Career
She is an American journalist who works as the principal news anchor for WJAR, an NBC station in Providence, Rhode Island. She as well serves as an education reporter and airs the Tuesday’s Child program. She was enrolled into the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame Women trainees. She as well been honored into the Rhode Island Radio and TV Hall of Fame. She started her profession reporting and presenting for WDHO-TV in Toledo, Ohio, and winded up internships at ABC News, the US House of Representatives, and Time magazine. Wood started serving at WJAR in February 1980 as a reporter and weekend announcer before her elevation to the nightly 11 o’clock newscasts in 1982. Come 1988, she was the anchor of the 5:30 p.m. program, which replaced the 5:00 p.m. hour newscast in 1995 and increased her duties, the 6:00 report in 1997.
She started working on the hour-long program in the year 1995 and then added the 6:00 report in the year 1997. She spent a lot of her time with long serving and experienced anchor Doug White, meteorologist Gary Ley, and sportscaster Frank Carpano. She interviewed very many celebrities, among them Oprah Winfrey and Mark Wahlberg. Wood is the longest-serving female newscaster in Providence TV history, having been on air for 40 years. As per her records, 60% of the children featured on her long-running show Tuesday’s Child have found new families.
Patrice Wood Net Worth
Wood has a roughly calculated net worth of 2 million dollars.