Johnny Edwards Biography
Johnny Edwards is an award winning journalist currently working as an investigative reporter for FOX 5 I-Team. He joined the station in 2023, changing to broadcast news after 25 years in print journalism.
Johnny Edwards Career
Prior to joining Fox 5, Edwards worked at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where he served on the investigative team and won several awards for rooting out corruption and abuse.
In the course of his career, he reported on how a county commissioner engineered a kickback scheme to cover up her financial problems. In addition, Edwards also reported on how two rural sheriffs turned jail inmates into personal laborers for their reelection campaigns and private businesses. Furthermore, he also dodged bullets in Iraq, stood next to Chuck D at James Brown’s funeral, and later became the first Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter to receive an Emmy Award.
Edwards was born and raised in Cobb County, Atlanta. He graduated with a degree in telecommunications from the University of Georgia journalism school. Edwards abandoned plans to become a media lawyer and in 1998 he answered an ad for a job with a North Fulton County weekly newspaper. Edwards immediately became hooked on a career that pays people to relentlessly pursue the truth, no matter who doesn’t like it. He moved on to daily newspapers in Marietta, Canton, Lynchburg, Va., and Augusta. During his time with The Augusta Chronicle, Edwards spent time as an embedded reporter with U.S. Marines and Army Reservists during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
He returned to Atlanta to work for his hometown newspaper after more than a decade away. Edwards exposed how DeKalb County elected officials used their discretionary budgets for personal benefit in 2014. This triggered an FBI investigation that resulted in criminal charges against a county commissioner, her husband, her chief of staff and an evangelist. Furthermore, he was a recipient of the Common Cause Georgia’s Democracy Award for that work, as well as an Emmy for his collaborations with WSB-TV.
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In addition, Edwards served on the team behind the newspaper’s “Doctors & Sex Abuse” project, a Pulitzer finalist, and recorded a related 6-episode podcast series called “Predator M.D.” in 2016. Furthermore, he led the newspaper’s 2019 coverage of the Georgia House speaker’s use of legislative leave to delay criminal cases for clients of his private law practice. His coverage won an Atlanta Press Club award for investigative reporting. In 2022, Edwards was part of the team behind the AJC’s “Dangerous Dwellings” series on persistently dangerous apartment complexes. He received national awards from both Investigative Reporters & Editors and the National Headliners Awards.
Edwards has one adult daughter and resides in DeKalb County with his wife and their border collie. In his free time, he is a certified scuba diver, a jogger, a history buff, a Jekyll Island lover, a Pink Floyd fanatic and, along with his daughter, a major Hawks fan.
Johnny Edwards Age
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Johnny Edwards Height
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Johnny Edwards Education
He graduated with a degree in telecommunications from the University of Georgia journalism school.
Johnny Edwards Family
Edwards was born and raised in Cobb County, Atlanta. There is no information about his parents or siblings. However, will update as soon as the information is available.
Johnny Edwards Wife
He lives in DeKalb county, Atlanta with his wife.
Johnny Edwards Children
Edwards is a father to an adult daughter, Grace and they are both major Hawks fans. He has written about his experience raising Grace as a single father.
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