{"id":146322,"date":"2026-03-23T21:25:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T21:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/146322\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T21:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T21:25:12","slug":"award-winning-pittsburgh-tv-reporter-leaving-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/146322\/","title":{"rendered":"Award-Winning Pittsburgh TV Reporter Leaving Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PITTSBURGH, PA \u2014 After more than a quarter of a century at a Pittsburgh TV station, a veteran reporter is calling it quits.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Van Osdol, the chief investigative reporter for WTAE-TV, will retire on March 25 <a href=\"https:\/\/tvnewscheck.com\/journalism\/article\/wtae-reporter-paul-van-osdol-to-retire-after-26-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to TVNewsCheck.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPaul has been a tremendous journalist, teammate, and mentor,\u201d Baylor Long, WTAE news director, told the website.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cWhether 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/news-team\/7fd1520b-b0b0-4825-a0ac-70907d7ea1d7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">According to the station website,<\/a> 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 . <\/p>\n<p>Van Osdol won numerous awards for his investigative work, including the George Foster Peabody in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The Michigan native and his family live in the North Hills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH, PA \u2014 After more than a quarter of a century at a Pittsburgh TV station, a veteran&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-146322","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-pittsburgh","9":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","10":"tag-pittsburgh-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}