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Taryn Winter Brill and Mark S. Allen

Taryn Winter Brill

Although Taryn is an October baby, her middle name is Winter! Taryn got her first taste of investigative journalism when she tried to find out why her parents chose “Winter” for her middle name. Upon repeated questioning, Taryn’s mom replied, “no comment, now lie down so I can change your diaper.”

Despite the lack of cooperation of her first interviewee, Taryn knew she liked asking questions. She nurtured her love of reporting as the editor-in-chief of her high school newspaper in Long Island, NY where she grew up. After high school, she enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania where she graduated Summa Cum Laude with a degree in communications and Spanish from the Annenberg School of Communication; she also studied Marketing at the Wharton School of Business. Her thesis: Why My Parents Named Me Winter in the Fall (note to reader: the thesis was never published but is an on-going personal quest for truth and justice).

While at Penn, Taryn interned at the Nancy Glass Radio Show and The Learning Channel’s A Wedding Story. She also hosted a pilot for Ms. Glass’s production company. Taryn looks back fondly on her days of waking up at 4 a.m. to bike to the 30th Street Train Station to enjoy a famous Philly pretzel while waiting for the subway.

In the summer before her Junior year at Penn, Taryn interned at The Late Show with David Letterman in New York City. She spent her Junior year abroad in Spain at the University of Sevilla. In addition to finding the best tapas restaurants, Taryn produced and hosted a documentary in Spanish about bull fighting – olé!

Upon returning from Spain and while still an undergraduate at Penn, Taryn worked as a producer along side Regis Philbin on the break-out prime-time hit Who Wants to be a Millionaire. Taryn graduated from Penn a semester early to continue working on Millionaire for the show’s initial two-year run, making television history in the process! After saving the ABC Network (ok, maybe Regis had a little something to do with it), Taryn hosted a program called “What’s Hot For Fall” that aired on Much Music USA.

Having had enough of the cold weather, Taryn moved to Los Angeles where she reported for Channel One News, a national news program broadcast in high school and middle school classrooms throughout the United States. She also hosted a pilot for NBC/Discovery Kids.

Taryn has also worked as a reporter & producer for AOL/Moviefone. At major press junkets, while interviewing all of the biggest movie stars, she would often bump into Good Day Sacramento’s own Mark S. Allen (you may have seen the duo in a featured role – ok, they were extras – in Fantastic Four playing, what else, reporters). Taryn currently co-hosts the Emmy nominated music channel AOL Music-On-Demand, available on Time Warner Cable. She has also worked as a producer and host for GOTV, an on demand mobile network broadcast on Sprint/Nextel cell phones.

Taryn has appeared in several national commercials and print campaigns. She has also dabbled in stand up comedy and is proud to have performed at L.A.’s IMPROV and comedy clubs throughout NYC.

Taryn is thrilled to join the Good Day family and looks forward to getting to know the people of Sacramento. She also hopes they have some ideas on why she was given such a funny middle name. She is an avid tennis player, loves to go bowling, and is currently looking for a ping pong league.