Chuck Goudie will join the investigative team for NBC 5 Chicago (WMAQ) beginning Monday, February 10

He left WLS in December after nearly 45 years on the air at the Chicago ABC owned station.

Goudie will join the ‘NBC 5 Investigates’ team which features Bennett Haeberle along with veteran producers Katy Smyser and Lisa Capitanini.

“Investigative reporting is more important than ever,” said Sally Ramirez, senior vice president of News, NBC 5 Chicago / Telemundo Chicago.. “Adding Chuck, one of the best journalists in the nation, to our award-winning ‘NBC 5 Investigates’ team ensures an even greater commitment to our Chicagoland viewing audience.”

“I walk into WMAQ on the shoulders of giants,” said Goudie. “Many of them I have been lucky enough to know, stand beside, work with and learn from. Paul Hogan, Phil Walters, Floyd Kalber, Peter Karl, Renee Ferguson, Rich Samuels, Linda Yu, Rob Elgas, Mike Adamle, Phil Rogers, Dick Johnson, Rob Stafford, Mark Giangreco, Tim Weigel, Art Norman, Lisa Parker, Dick Kay, Ron Magers, Carol Marin, Don Moseley and other friends who are still in the Chicago trenches at NBC 5 that I am excited to join. I’m grateful to become part of an organization with such a powerful pedigree and a legacy of investigative excellence. A place with a motto more relevant today than ever, baked into its call letters: We Must Ask Questions.”

After an early TV career start at the age of 12 at WXYZ in Detroit, Michigan where he had weekly roles on two children’s shows, Goudie’s hard-news career began as a Detroit-based reporter/producer with the NBC-owned News and Information Service in 1975, the first 24-hour, all-news national radio network.  

Goudie’s first television news reporting position began in 1977 with then-NBC affiliate WSOC in Charlotte, N.C. He later became the station’s primary sports anchor when it changed affiliations to ABC. He joined WLS in Chicago as a general assignment reporter and was eventually promoted to chief investigative reporter at the station in 1990. 

Goudie is also the recipient of a national Edward R. Murrow Award for Continuous Television News Reporting. He has also received numerous reporting awards from the Associated Press; Emmy awards from the Chicago Television Academy; Peter Lisagor Awards from the Society for Professional Journalists and Herman Kogan awards from the Chicago Bar Association. In 2018, Goudie was inducted into the Silver Circle of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Chicago/Midwest Chapter.