{"id":342641,"date":"2026-06-19T09:40:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T09:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/342641\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T09:40:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T09:40:29","slug":"robert-arnold-leaving-kprc-after-26-years-in-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/342641\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Arnold leaving KPRC after 26 years in Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emmy award-winning investigative journalist Robert Arnold is stepping away from Houston&#8217;s KPRC Channel 2 after 26 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After 26 years at KPRC and 31 years as a journalist, I have decided to live life without a deadline,&#8221; he said in the post. &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His work has covered a variety of topics from immigration to corruption and waste in government, which brought law changes both locally and nationally, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/team\/L6SS63LGY5DFVP43G6NYANAKLY\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to his KPRC bio<\/a>. Over the last year he has covered the impact of the July 4\u00a0Kerrville floods and Camp Mystic&#8217;s involvement in the flood.\u00a0Most recently, he reported on law enforcement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/news\/investigates\/2026\/06\/12\/searchers-return-to-the-texas-killing-fields\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawSfat5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEehdMd4wNMOKIsR28lw_oGLGYVeX1z5Fx3kB_cSiDCS3YJVM8lgjLPOf9Vgqg_aem_RcaS2rtG0iSn2yEG1-h4kQ\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">searching the &#8220;Texas Killing Fields&#8221;<\/a> again.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He won three Emmy awards while working at\u00a0KRPC related to reporting about the Texas border and mismanagement in the Houston Fire Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Arnold studied journalism at the University of Houston from 1990 to 1994. He began his journalism career at\u00a0KNUZ\/KQUE radio, then moved on to the overnight \u201ccop beat\u201d at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ktrh.iheart.com\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KTRH radio<\/a> in Houston.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Arnold began at KPRC in July 2000. He has been an investigative reporter with the station.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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,&#8221; he said in the post.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He gave no specific plans for his next chapter but closed the post with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tolkiensociety.org\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">J.R.R. Tolkien<\/a> quote \u201cNot all those who wander are lost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Houston Chronicle has reached out to KPRC for further comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emmy award-winning investigative journalist Robert Arnold is stepping away from Houston&#8217;s KPRC Channel 2 after 26 years.\u00a0 &#8220;After&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-342641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}