Michael G. Taibbi (born c. 1949) is an American television journalist best known for his work at NBC News.
[1] Taibbi was born Loren Ames Denny to a Filipino-Hawaiian mother, Camila Salinas, in Hawaii, about 1949.
At the age of seven or eight he was adopted by Salvatore and Gaetana Taibbi (whose surname is of Sicilian and Lebanese origin).
[citation needed][5][4] This landed him a job as investigative reporter at the Boston station WCVB-TV.
[4] In 1977 he was London correspondent for ABC News for six months, before returning to Boston, now working for rival station WNAC-TV as reporter and co-anchor.