Emmy award-winning investigative journalist Robert Arnold is stepping away from Houston’s KPRC Channel 2 after 26 years.
“After 26 years at KPRC and 31 years as a journalist, I have decided to live life without a deadline,” he said in the post. “I joined KPRC in 2000, and the past three decades have been fulfilling, awe-inspiring, humbling, exhausting, joyful and, most of all, a privilege. I am immensely grateful to everyone who trusted me to tell their story. I remember every face and every living room.”
His work has covered a variety of topics from immigration to corruption and waste in government, which brought law changes both locally and nationally, according to his KPRC bio. Over the last year he has covered the impact of the July 4 Kerrville floods and Camp Mystic’s involvement in the flood. Most recently, he reported on law enforcement searching the “Texas Killing Fields” again.
He won three Emmy awards while working at KRPC related to reporting about the Texas border and mismanagement in the Houston Fire Department.
Arnold studied journalism at the University of Houston from 1990 to 1994. He began his journalism career at KNUZ/KQUE radio, then moved on to the overnight “cop beat” at KTRH radio in Houston.
Arnold began at KPRC in July 2000. He has been an investigative reporter with the station.
“Any successes or accolades I have received over the years are a reflection of the talented photojournalists, editors, producers and colleagues I have been fortunate enough to work alongside,” he said in the post.
He gave no specific plans for his next chapter but closed the post with the J.R.R. Tolkien quote “Not all those who wander are lost.”
The Houston Chronicle has reached out to KPRC for further comment.