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Mark Matthews

Mark Matthews

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Mark Matthews joined ABC7 News in December, 2003 as the Political Reporter.

Matthews began his career as an Investigative Reporter at KSBY, San Luis Obisbo and KERO, Bakersfield. Most recently, Matthews worked at KGTV in San Diego. During the late 80's he earned his stripes while reporting on Pablo Escobar and the major Cocaine Cartels. Later he traveled to Nicaragua and Honduras to cover the war between the Sandanistas and the Contras. In the '90's Mark spent 6 weeks in Israel reporting on the Gulf War.

His investigative reporting style has been instrumental in uncovering graft, corruption and injustice. In one case, his investigation was directly responsible for freeing a wrongly imprisoned man and finding the person who actually committed the rape.

Matthews, who graduated from the University of Texas, Austin with a BA in Broadcast Journalism is the recipient of numerous Emmy and Golden Mic Awards as well as an Iris Award.

He has settled with his wife in the Bay Area.