Steve Chamraz
Chief Investigative Reporter
 Steve Chamraz joined the News 4 team as Chief Investigative Reporter in November, 2005.
Steve has worked in newsrooms across the country, but is proud to call the Midwest his home. He's a Chicago native and graduated from
Milwaukee's Marquette University with a B.A. in Journalism. Most recently, Steve led the investigative team at KCTV-TV in Kansas City.
He has received some of the industry's highest honors including a National Headliner Award for investigative reporting.
Steve was a finalist for the Investigative Reporters and Editors award, won seven regional Edward R. Murrow Awards, six Mid-America Emmy Awards, three Missouri Broadcasters Awards, the Kansas Broadcasters Award and numerous awards from the Kansas City Press Club.
Steve's work has been featured on the CBS Evening News, 60 Minutes and Court TV. It has resulted in new state laws,
reforms to the court system, the clean-up of illegal dumps, criminal investigations, and the resignations of powerful public servants.
In February, 2004, Steve received national attention and acclaim for a ground-breaking, seven-part series that exposed
the problem of men seeking underage teens through Internet chat rooms.
Before turning his focus to investigative reporting, Steve covered some of the nation's biggest stories for KGO-TV
in San Francisco. He spent a week reporting from West Palm Beach and Miami, Fla. during the 2000 presidential recount, he reported live from Modesto, Calif. during the Chandra Levy investigation, and trained with Marines in the Sierra Nevada Mountains prior to their mission to Afghanistan in the months after 9/11. Steve has also had some fun -- covering the Emmy awards live from Los Angeles.
In 1997, the Hearst Journalism Foundation named Steve one of the top young reporters in the country.
If you have a story you'd like Steve to investigate, e-mail him at schamraz@kmov.com.
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