Al Naipo

KTTV FOX 11 (myfoxla.com) - Orange County Bureau Chief Al Naipo has been a staple on Fox 11 10 O'clock News since joining the station, originally as a general assignment reporter, in 1993.

Naipo, who was born and raised in Los Angeles, has covered numerous breaking news events, ranging from the O.J. Simpson verdicts to the 1994 Northridge Earthquake. He occasionally fills in as an anchor as well. In 1993, he was nominated for a Los Angeles area Emmy in the category of Live Coverage of an Unscheduled News Event for his coverage of the Southland fires in 1993. He received a Florida area Emmy nomination in 1990 for a breaking news report about a Haitian uprising at a Cuban-owned store while working for WSVN-TV, the Fox-affiliate in Miami FL.

Prior to Fox 11, Naipo was an anchor and reporter from 1992-93 at KMOV-TV, the CBS affiliate in St. Louis, MO, and a reporter/anchor at the Fox affiliate WSVN-TV in Miami from 1990-91. Naipo was a reporter at KSDK-TV, the NBC station in St. Louis from 1985-90. The veteran journalist has held stints as a reporter at NBC affiliate WEEK-TV (1983-85) in Peoria, IL and at WTOL-TV, where he was the Washington, DC-based correspondent for the CBS station in Toledo, Ohio.

Naipo started his broadcasting career in 1982 as news director, producer and anchor at KSCR-AM, the University of Southern California radio station. He also served as a news and sports writer for "The Daily Trojan", the school newspaper, from 1979-81.

Naipo was graduated from USC with a B.A. in broadcast journalism and political science; he also earned an M.S. in journalism from Northwestern University.