John Schwada

John Schwada is a political-government and investigative reporter for KTTV Fox 11 in Los Angeles. He has won two LA area Emmy awards and a Golden Mike for his investigative reports for that station.

In 2008, he was one of three nominees for an Emmy for his reports concerning a real estate con artist; this series, still up for a Golden Mike award, was done in concert with legendary LA newsman/TV producer Pete Noyes.

Schwada is a frequent contributor to blogs on the station's website, [http://community.myfoxla.com/blogs/John_Schwada] .

Prior to joining KTTV in 1996, Schwada worked as a political and City Hall reporter for the "Los Angeles Herald-Examiner". In the 1980's he won LA Press Club awards for his series investigating Councilman Richard Alatorre's illegal use of campaign money in his 1985 council race and for his investigation of Mayor Tom Bradley's questionable ties to the Far East National Bank. In 1989, the LA Society of Professional Journalists named Schwada print journalist of the year.

After the "Herald-Examiner" folded in Nov. 1989, Schwada was immediately hired by The Los Angeles Times where he helped develop a weekly political column for the paper's Valley edition and covered politics and City Hall.

Before moving to Los Angeles, Schwada was a reporter for the "Riverside Press-Enterprise", the "Arizona Republic" and the "San Diego Union." He walso orked for the "San Francisco Bay Guardian" and freelanced for "The Economist" in the 1970's; his investigation of the work done by the San Francisco station of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) resulted in a first-place San Francisco press club award - the first ever won by the "Guardian".

Schwada earned bachelor degrees in history and journalism from UC Berkeley, graduating Phi Beta Kappa, and a master's degree in American history - also from Berkeley. He is married and has two children. To see Schwada in action, you can log on to the myfoxla.com website, review his blogs and see copies of his stories.