Greg Caputo joined WGN-TV as News Director in December 2002. Caputo leads the news operation of consistently top-ranked local newscasts: WGN Morning News, WGN News at Noon, and WGN News at Nine.

Mr. Caputo joined WGN-TV from Tribune station WLVI-TV in Boston, where he served as news director for seven years. During his tenure, WLVI News remained a consistent market leader at 10pm, earning multiple local Emmys, as well as Associated Press and RTNDA Awards. Prior to WLVI, he spent three years as corporate director of news for Malrite Communications group in Ohio. While there, he launched a news operation at their Fox affiliate WXIX, Cincinnati and assumed news leadership at the new two station cluster of CBS affiliate WOIO and independent station WUAB in Cleveland.

As Vice President and News Director at WFLD in Chicago in 1985 and from 1987-1993, Mr. Caputo developed and launched news broadcasts on the station. He held the same position at WNYW, New York and WTTG, Washington, D.C. from 1986-1987. Starting in 1972 and onward into 1985, Mr. Caputo held a variety of positions at WBBM-TV CBS affiliate leading to the news director position in 1983. He also worked for Group W Television KDKA-TV as their assignment manager in the mid-1970s. Mr. Caputo started in the industry as a reporter, writer, producer, photographer, and editor at WNDU-TV and Radio in South Bend, Indiana in 1968.

Mr. Caputo graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a BA in Communication Arts and received his MSJ from Northwestern University's prestigious Medill School of Journalism. He has been President of the Board of Governors of the Boston-New England Chapter of NATAS, a Governor of the Chicago Chapter of NATAS, and a member of the RTNDA. He has also been a guest lecturer at many prestigious universities, including Northwestern University, Columbia University in New York, Boston University, and Emerson College in Boston, to name a few.