Television News Anchor Amanda Raus Joins WTNH-TV

CONNECTICUT — Television news anchor Amanda Raus, who left Hartford's Fox61 in December after six years, has joined WTNH-TV in New Haven, she announced Wednesday on social media.

And she and her husband, Fox News Channel anchor Todd Piro, are expecting their second child.

"Joining the team at @wtnh8 on the weekends while waiting for baby girl #2 to arrive in June," Raus wrote on her Instagram page.

Raus is a Monroe native, who graduated from Masuk High School. Before Fox61, she worked at NBC Connecticut (WVIT-TV) for eight years.

News 8 anchor Lisa Carberg welcomed Raus to her new news home. The two worked together at WVIT.

"So great to have the awesome @amandaraus on our @WTNH news team!" Carberg wrote on Twitter. The tweet featured a photo of the two. "Welcome and great to work with you again!"

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Before her tenures at Fox61 and WVIT, Raus worked at WSHM in Springfield, Massachusetts, and News 12 Connecticut.

Raus earned her undergraduate Bachelor of Science degree in Broadcast Journalism from Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, and later obtained her MBA from Hamden-based Quinnipiac University.

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