Richard Couto, Patch Staff

I was born and raised in Rhode Island. Attended high school at Bishop Hendricken. I then went to study journalism at Emerson College in Boston.

After graduating college, I spent several years working as an assignment editor and associate producer at local television stations in Providence and Boston. After that I spent a year in New York working for the affiliate division of CBS News called Newspath as an associate producer.

I followed that up by spending the next 13 years working for the affiliate newsgathering division of Fox News Channel as the Northeast Regional News Manager. I recently joined Patch as the Regional Editor for Rhode Island and Attleboro/Seekonk.