Denver7 Chief Investigator Tony Kovaleski will retire later this year, bringing to an end an illustrious 42-year broadcasting career that included a combined 20 years across two stints with Denver7.
Kovaleski’s reporting at Denver7 has won numerous national awards, including the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award – the highest honor in broadcast journalism – a National Edward R. Murrow Award, a Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists and a National Headliner Award.
He’s also received roughly four dozen local and regional Emmy Awards over his 42 years in television, which have included 27 years of investigative reporting as well as other reporting and news management positions.
His career took him from Eureka, Calif.; to Reno, Nevada; to Phoenix and Houston before he landed in Denver. His two decades in the Mile High City were split by a five-year stint in the Bay Area…