PITTSBURGH, PA — After more than a quarter of a century at a Pittsburgh TV station, a veteran reporter is calling it quits.
Paul Van Osdol, the chief investigative reporter for WTAE-TV, will retire on March 25 according to TVNewsCheck.
“Paul has been a tremendous journalist, teammate, and mentor,” Baylor Long, WTAE news director, told the website.
“Whether he was leading a major investigation, digging through complicated records, or helping a colleague make sense of a difficult story, Paul always brought intelligence, integrity, and heart to the job.”
According to the station website, Van Osdol joined WTAE in 1999. After graduating from Tufts University, Paul worked at a station in Jacksonville, Florida and wrote for a newspaper in Lawrence, Massachusetts .
Van Osdol won numerous awards for his investigative work, including the George Foster Peabody in 2015.
The Michigan native and his family live in the North Hills.