Chip Yost

Chip Yost is KTLA’s multi-media journalist and extensively covers Orange County.

He joined KTLA in February of 2007 and though he reports on just about everything, his passion and background are in investigative reporting.

Chip won an Emmy for a story that had him tracking down fugitives who had escaped from the Colorado Department of Corrections. He won a duPont Silver Baton (broadcast journalism’s equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize) for another story where he exposed how a police car could turn into a fiery death trap for officers. More recently, Chip was awarded a Golden Mike for his report on KTLA about squatters taking over homes in an upscale Riverside neighborhood.

Before joining KTLA, Chip worked as an investigative and general assignment reporter at television stations in Denver (KUSA), Tucson (KOLD), Yuma (KYMA) and San Diego (KGTV).

Chip grew up in Ohio and earned his Bachelor’s of Business Administration at the University of Cincinnati. After a stint as an outside sales representative for AirTouch Communications in Los Angeles, Chip went back to school to get his Master’s at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York. If you don’t believe him, just ask to see his most recent student loan statement. He’s still paying it off.