Samantha Chatman will join ABC 7 Eyewitness News covering consumer issues for the station’s weekday morning newscasts, it was announced today by Jennifer Graves, Vice President News, ABC 7. Chatman, who grew up in Chicago, will begin at ABC 7 on September 30.
Most recently Chatman has been an Emmy Award-winning consumer investigator for KXAS-TV, the NBC-owned station in Dallas, where she has reported for the “NBC 5 Responds” franchise. Before moving to Dallas in 2016, Samantha was the Business Reporter at WDRB-TV in Louisville, KY. She started her career at WEEK-TV in Peoria, where she worked as a Multimedia Journalist and fill in anchor and weather anchor.
According to Graves, “Samantha Chatman is a top-notch reporter whose consumer investigations have won awards and resonated with viewers. She knows and loves Chicago and said she is thrilled to have the chance to work for the station that inspired her career in broadcast journalism.”
Chatman grew up in Hyde Park and attended Lincoln Park High School. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She’s a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority and the National Association of Black Journalists. And although Samantha grew up in Hyde Park, she’s a diehard Cubs fan.
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