Mike Garreffi is a respected, long-serving, award-winning journalist in the Springfield, MA area who dedicated over four decades to WWLP-22News and saw himself proudly and simply as “a storyteller with a camera.” He started as a part-time photographer, was promoted to Chief Photographer, then News Operations Manager, and finally News Director in 1999.  Mike and his team received – among other honors – a coveted New England Emmy Award for the station’s coverage of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.  He was also honored the Springfield Rotary Club for his “work behind the scenes and largely out of the limelight and has transformed his station’s coverage of our local news, with a focus not just on ratings, but on live coverage of stories important to his viewers, supportive of our community and reported by a news team that reflects the diversity of the region it serves.”