Troy Barrett

Wednesday April 21st at 6pm PT you can follow our tweetchat with news and weather anchor Troy Barrett, known on twitter as @thetroybarrett.

Our line of questioning this week will be on the topic of “wine and the media”, the discussion will cover how wine is impacted by media coverage and what you can do to get the media interested in you! To share your questions for that event early, please contact @craigsutton by direct message or email before the event and include your questions.

Troy’s Bio:

Troy Barrett is the morning news and weather anchor for the local CBS affiliate TV stations KIMA and KEPR Action News. Troy began his professional broadcasting career in Phoenix as a radio disc jockey where he held on-air positions at both KSLX-FM (classic rock) and KBUQ-FM (country at the time).

Troy is a graduate of The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University where he earned a B.A. in Broadcast Journalism with a minor in Physical Geography (Meteorology). Troy’s first on-air television job took him to Southern Oregon where he spent three years providing morning and midday weather forecasts for ABC affiliate KDRV-TV in Medford, Oregon. While in Southern Oregon, Troy fell in love with the wine industry and all that the Rogue, Applegate and Willamette Valleys had to offer. His next TV adventure was going to take him to El Paso, Texas, Troy packed up as much Oregon wine as he could and headed to the borderland. After spending three years in El Paso as a weather forecaster, news anchor and news reporter, Troy jumped at the chance to return to the Northwest so he could live and work in the the greatest wine region in the nation.

“The wine industry here was one of the main reasons I accepted the position at Action News…no, I don’t have a drinking problem…I have a curiosity problem…I want to learn everything about wine and the wine industry.”