Who is WHIO TV 7 Broadcaster John Bedell?
John Bedell is an Experienced American reporter and anchor working as Lead Investigative Reporter for WHIO TV 7 in Dayton, Ohio. He has been part of this network since May 2010.
How old is John Bedell?
Bedell was born in Ohio on June 2nd. His exact year of birth is unknown as he has not disclosed it. Nevertheless, it is estimated that he might be around his 30s.
Early Life
Bedell has deep Ohio roots. He is a native Ohioan and a lifelong Buckeye. John was born and raised by his parents in the Akron area. Unlike other personalities, the journalist hasn’t disclosed any details about his life, including his mother, father, siblings, and boyhood.
John Bedell Education
John graduated with honors from Walsh Jesuit High School in 2006. After that, he joined the University of Dayton to study broadcast journalism, where he graduated in 2010 with a bachelor’s degree in communication with a concentration in electronic media. The WHIO TV 7 Lead Investigative Reporter also holds a minor in sales management.
John Bedell’s Wife, Children
Regarding his marital entanglements, John is happily married, though he has not revealed his wife’s identity. The twosome are parents of two children, and the second one was born on 2-22-22.
Career
Bedell is the Lead Investigative Reporter for WHIO TV 7 in Dayton, Ohio. He has been with WHIO since May 2, 2010- the day Americans woke up to the news that U.S. Special Forces killed Osama Bin Laden during a raid in Pakistan. John learned from some of the best in the radio business at WHIO, like Larry Hansgen, Chris Collins, Nancy Wilson, Tom Michaels, and Jim Barrett.
Since he made the switch to TV, he has had the opportunity to study under Hall of Fame co-workers like Mike Hartsock, Letitia Perry, Steve Baker, Jim Otte, Cheryl McHenry, and WHIO mainstays like James Brown and Gabrielle Enright.
John started working on Miami Valley’s Morning News two weeks following UD graduation. Even though John is not a Miami Valley native, the Dayton area has become his second home. He has deep Ohio roots and is a lifelong Buckeye.
John has reported on all kinds of stories around the Miami Valley and across the country for WHIO. He has also covered two crashes at the Dayton Air Show, including one on practice day in 2017 when a Thunderbird pilot flipped his F-16 off a rain-soaked runway. He also spent a week in Gatlinburg, TN, reporting on the wildfires in the Great Smoky Mountains in December 2016. John talked to folks and locals with Miami Valley ties who lived there about how the fires affected their lives.
John was a member of the WHIO team that documented a difficult 2019 in the Dayton area. That included the FBI public corruption probe of Dayton City Hall, the Montgomery County water crisis, a hate group rally on Memorial Day weekend, the Oregon District mass shooting, the Memorial Day tornado outbreak, and the murder of Dayton Police Det. Jorge Del Rio.
He has also covered court sagas and high-profile crimes like the Rhoden family murders in Pike County in 2016 and the extensive investigation, arrests, and court cases that have followed. John also covered Brooke Skylar Richardson’s killing trial gavel-to-gavel in Warren County in September 2019, plus the trial of former Springboro gym teacher Austin Hopkins in March 2020. He has been heavily active in the investigative reporting that the News Center 7 I-Team has done in connection with the child abuse deaths of Takoda Collins and James Hutchinson.
John is a big sports supporter. He loves the Dayton Flyers. He is also a dyed-in-the-wool Cleveland sports lover, rooting for his Indians, Cavs, and Browns. When not working, John enjoys studying U.S. military history, keeping up with yard work, and staying active by swimming and hiking. He also enjoys exploring local and state parks in the Miami Valley and around Ohio.
John Bedell Awards
His work has been recognized by multiple professional journalism organizations. The Ohio Valley Chapter of The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences honored him with an Emmy for his story about the Katelyn Markham cold case on “Miami Valley Murder Mysteries.” John’s work has also been nominated for two other regional Emmys. The Society of Professional Journalists has offered John awards for Best Feature Story, Best Reporter for Television, Best Spot News (twice), Best Feature Reporting, and Best Continuing Coverage. The Ohio Associated Press Media Editors Awards have awarded him with awards for Best Continuing Coverage and Best Feature Reporting.
John Bedell Height
Bedell has an estimated height of 6 feet 1 inch, equaling 1.85 meters.
John Bedell Salary
He has an estimated annual salary ranging from $ 77,145K to $ 173,985 K.
John Bedell’s Net Worth
Bedell’s approximate net worth is $ 1 million, or above. Nevertheless, his career as a journalist is his primary source of revenue.
John Bedell WHIO TV 7
Bedell works at WHIO TV 7 with his fellow anchors, reporters, and meteorologists, such as
- Cheryl McHenry-Anchor/Investigative Reporter
- James Brown-Evening Anchor
- Gabrielle Enright-Evening Anchor
- Letitia Perry-News Anchor
- Nick Foley-News Anchor
- Tori McGee-reporter/Anchor
- Mike Campbell-Investigative Reporter
Is John Bedell on Instagram, Twitter, or TikTok?
You can follow him via Twitter or Facebook. However, John doesn’t appear to have a public Instagram, TikTok, or Snapchat account currently.