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Brooks Jarosz lives for breaking news, investigative and in-depth reporting. He joined the WSAZ NewsChannel 3 team in Charleston, West Virginia in December 2009. As a multimedia journalist, Jarosz has covered nationally televised stories including the Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster, U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd’s passing and major severe weather outbreaks.  Jarosz is now one of WSAZ’s senior Charleston reporters for political, crime and consumer news.

Jarosz has covered everything from the state legislature and the governor’s office, to murder trials and crime sprees, to deadly flooding and blizzards.

He calls himself a ‘multimedia journalist,’ researching, shooting, writing, editing and reporting on a daily basis. A graduate of the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University, Jarosz got his start at WOUB-TV in Athens, Ohio, where he worked as an anchor and reporter for three years.

In 2008, Jarosz earned a prestigious Carnegie Fellowship with the award-winning Brian Ross Investigative Unit at ABC News in New York. While there, he field produced and contributed to investigative segments airing on 20/20, Nightline and Good Morning America.

Jarosz is originally from Toledo, Ohio, where most of his family still lives. He enjoys food, friends and the outdoors. He’s always on the lookout for news tips and stories that matter, especially to those living in and around the Kanawha Valley.