Arnold Díaz Biography – Arnold Díaz Wiki
Arnold Díaz is an American television consumer watchdog journalist, of Puerto Rican descent, who is currently employed by WPIX-TV in New York. He is famously known for his Shame on You series of reports which he did on WCBS-TV for over twenty years. He was also an employee for ABC News and WNYW in similar capacities, with WNYW taking a page from WCBS and naming the segment Shame Shame Shame. His reports are mostly focused on exposing wrongdoings and incompetence by private industry and government agencies. His reports have resulted to jail time for a number of scam artists.
Before he went to work with WNYW-TV, he was a reporter for WPLG-TV in Miami from the early to mid-1970s, then to WCBS-TV in New York as from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s. During his time at WCBS-TV, he managed to win 25 local Emmy Awards. He has won a total of 48 Emmy awards throughout his career. He also worked for ABC’s 20/20 as the show’s Consumer Investigative Reporter from 1995 to 2003. While working with ABC’s 20/20, he won the National Press Club Consumer Journalism Award and the Consumer Federation of America Media Service Award. He went back to WCBS-TV in 2003 and revived the Shame On You segment. In the year 1995, he was inducted into the National Academy of Arts and Sciences Silver Circle. In January 2014, it was announced that he would no longer be working for WNYW-TV. On March 31, 2014; he became part of WPIX as part of the newly formed “PIX11 Investigates” unit with longtime reporters Mary Murphy and chief investigator Howard Thompson.
He got his degree from Florida State University where he was a Phi Beta Kappa. He later received his master’s degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois.
Arnold Díaz Age
He was born on July 4, 1949, in Brooklyn, New York, United States.
Arnold Díaz Wife
He is married to his wife Shawn Diaz. He lives in Port Chester, New York, with his wife and three children.
Arnold Díaz Children
He lives in Port Chester, New York, with his wife and three children.
Arnold Díaz Nationality
He is American.