Chuck Goudie

Goudie has received a National Emmy Award for Investigative Reporting. Goudie's series “Worst Case Scenario” exposed how government agencies and chemical companies were unprotected against an attack. The reports found significant gaps in security at Illinois chemical plants; significant because there are more chemical facilities containing large amounts of hazardous chemicals in Illinois than any state in the USA.

The national "Edward R. Murrow Award" from the Radio-Television News Directors Association, for continuing coverage a nationwide murder spree.

Numerous Associated Press journalism awards including a national AP award for enterprise reporting.

At age 12, Goudie was a regular on two weekly children's shows on WXYZ-TV in Detroit, Michigan. (1968–72). From 1975 to 1976, he was the news director at the Michigan State Network, the campus radio network serving Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. He worked full-time as a radio newsman for both WILS-Radio and WVIC-Radio in Lansing and was a contributor to WXYZ-Radio in Detroit.

Goudie also worked at WSOC-TV, the ABC affiliate in Charlotte, N.C., where he was a main sports anchor (1978–80) and general assignment reporter (1977–78).^[3]

He is a member of Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) and a regular speaker at their annual international conference.

Goudie holds a degree from Michigan State University where he was a member of Delta Chi fraternity. In 1982 he married Teri Goudie, a former ABC producer who now leads a media consulting and corporate crisis training company. They have five children. Brittany Goudie, one of Chuck and Teri's children, started her career at HARPO Studios in Chicago working on The Oprah Winfrey Show, music management at Nashville-based Starstruck Entertainment, and now as producer of SiriusXM The Highway morning show with Storme Warren.