Catherine Beck is an Emmy Award winning investigative television reporter. She currently works as part of the investigative unit at WXIA TV in Atlanta, Georgia.
Over the year and a half Beck has been in Atlanta she has firmly upheld the station’s brand to hold the powerful accountable. Her results are evident by the awards she earned this year alone to include three regional Emmy awards for investigative work, the Associated Press Award for Best Investigative and the Atlanta Press Club Award for Overall Excellence.
Before her work in Atlanta, Beck was telling similar stories in Richmond, Virginia. Her work at WTVR TV earned her recognition as a government watchdog reporter who kept city government officials on their toes. In addition to her many investigations targeting the actions of elected officials, Beck also delved in to system wide fraud and failures inside troubled school systems and Richmond’s Department of Social Services.
Beck’s work in Richmond also led to Emmy Awards, Edward R. Murrow Awards, Associated Press awards, as well as the Virginia Association of Broadcasters. Beck won a Preservation Advocacy community award while in Richmond for her continued coverage of the city’s ignored dilapidated properties. Outside of work Beck taught broadcast writing as an adjunct professor for Virginia Commonwealth University in the fall semester of 2013 and served on the Board of Governors for the region’s NATAS chapter.
Before Richmond, Beck made shorter stops in markets across the county. She spent time cutting her teeth as a reporter in Minnesota, Florida and Texas. Beck earned her BA in Communications and Media Studies from Fordham University and later received her MA from American University in Broadcast Journalism.
Beck grew up in Annapolis, Maryland alongside her incredible family. In her spare time Beck loves to practice hot yoga, travel the world, spoil her husband Kyle and dog pita, watch tennis and tell stories that really matter.
