George Kiriyama
San Francisco Bay Area- San Jose
Native of Southern California. Fan of all LA sports (Dodgers, Lakers, UCLA) with a touch of the Bay i.e. Oakland Raiders fan.
Twenty two years of broadcast journalism experience....21 of them on-air as a TV News Reporter.
Three-time EMMY nominated news reporter George Kiriyama is now the Managing Editor at KCOY/KEYT./KKFX in the Santa Maria/Santa Barbara/San Luis Obispo television market.
Before he moved into management, he worked for more than eight years as a nightside reporter for the 11PM newscast on NBC Bay Area (San Francisco Bay Area TV market)
He is most proud of the EMMY nomination he received for a documentary he worked on with his colleagues called "Dreams To Dust: Americans Interned." Kiriyama interviewed his family members who were incarcerated along with 110,000 Japanese Americans in concentration camps during World War II.
He started his on-air career in 1996 at the NBC station in Midland/Odessa, TX. Two years later he moved to Michigan where he worked for the CBS station in Kalamazoo/Grand Rapids, MI. In 2002, Kiriyama moved to Kansas City, MO where he worked for KSHB-TV (NBC). He finally came back to California in January 2006 to join NBC Bay Area.
Kiriyama was inducted into the Cal State Fullerton College of Communications Wall of Fame in May 2006.
He's also active in the Asian American Journalists Association where he has served as the National Vice President for Broadcast from 2009-2012. AAJA awarded him the 2013 Outstanding Leadership Award and the 2007 Member of the Year Award.