Mike Barz

Mike Barz (1988) is the morning news anchor for "Good Day Chicago” on WFLD-TV, the Fox News affiliate in Chicago. Mike began his broadcasting career at ESPN as a production assistant for the popular Jim Rome Show. He worked as a producer, reporter and anchor in several television markets, spending seven years as the morning sports anchor at WGN-TV in Chicago.

In 2003, Mike won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement for Sports Programs, Sports Segment/Feature, and eventually was wooed by ABC’s Good Morning America (GMA) program, which he joined in 2005. At GMA, Mike was the features correspondent and anchored the weather segment. He reported on a wide variety of stories for the national morning program, and traveled around the country in a series called, “Who in the World is Mike Barz?” As part of that series, Barz interviewed and worked with people doing odd and interesting jobs including a whale dentist, an elephant podiatrist, and a Corvette test driver in Detroit, which was his favorite.

Mike was an Army brat, who was born in Los Angeles and arrived in Western New York from Delaware in time for his freshman year of high school. At North, Barz started on the school’s basketball team and was voted “class clown” by his classmates. After graduating from high school, he attended Indiana University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Broadcast Journalism in 1993. He resides in suburban Chicago with his wife, Marisa, and their three children.