Judd McIlvain
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Judd McIlvain was a journalist known for his “Troubleshooter” reports on KCBS-TV, where he worked for ten years beginning in 1988. While at the station he also worked on 48 Hours with Dan Rather, and later reported for ABC’s 20/20.
McIlvain got his start at the age of 12, writing, producing and hosting Children’s Digest, a kids' talk show for a local TV station in Bloomington, Illinois. A few years later he worked as a radio DJ, and later went on to produce the show TV Dance Party.
He earned a journalism degree from Columbia University and took the initiative to go to Central America independently and send war reports back to the U.S. for ABC News and United Press International. McIlvain then transitioned to KHOU-TV in Houston as an assignment editor and reporter and created the investigative series The McIlvain Files.
Judd McIlvain was a journalist known for his “Troubleshooter” reports on KCBS-TV, where he worked for ten years beginning in 1988. While at the station he also worked on 48 Hours with Dan Rather, and later reported for ABC’s 20/20.
McIlvain got his start at the age of 12, writing, producing and hosting Children’s Digest, a kids' talk show for a local TV station in Bloomington, Illinois. A few years later he worked as a radio DJ, and later went on to produce the show TV Dance Party.
He earned a journalism degree from Columbia University and took the initiative to go to Central America independently and send war reports back to the U.S. for ABC News and United Press International. McIlvain then transitioned to KHOU-TV in Houston as an assignment editor and reporter and created the investigative series The McIlvain Files.
He earned two local Emmy Awards, eight Golden Mikes, four Los Angeles Press Club honors and Texas’s top prize for investigative reporting, the Headliners Award.
McIlvain died March 9, 2015, in Woodland Hills, California. He was 73.
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