Kelli O'Hara has left Boston's WHDH 7 News, New England One has learned.
Kelli O'Hara has left Boston's WHDH 7 News, New England One has learned.
Kelli has been a reporter at 7 News since she joined the station in 2014, and is the latest on-air talent to leave the station ahead of the loss of its NBC affiliation in January.
“Yes, I have left WHDH" Kelli Told New England One. "Other opportunities have presented themselves, and it seemed like a good time personally for me to make a move. I am grateful for my time at channel 7 especially all the viewers I met and the stories I was able to tell. Most of all, I’ll miss my friends at Bulfinch Place who have passionately devoted their careers to making a great station and wish them nothing but the best for the future."
Kelli's stories have led her to death row, the frontlines of the deadly heroin epidemic and a confession from a mother accused of killing her little boy.
Prior to joining 7 News, Kelli was a general assignment and investigative reporter for WTVD ABC 11 in Raleigh - Durham, North Carolina.
Before that, she spent a year as a consumer and investigative reporter at KTVX ABC 4 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
In 2010, Kelli produced a ground-breaking series for Utah television viewers on a mother’s confessions from behind bars... a mother accused of killing her own child. Another of her interviews led to a 20-year federal prison sentence after a man confessed his crime to Kelli.
Kelli has been honored with two Associated Press Awards and received several Emmy nominations. Salt Lake City Magazine named Kelli the “Toughest Reporter” in Utah.
She has also worked as a reporter at WTVR CBS 6 in Richmond, Virginia; as a contributor for MSNBC; and as a producer for WRKO News Radio 680AM.
Before television, Kelli taught history to troubled youth in Charlestown. It's there, where her passion for helping people and telling stories evolved. However, Kelli's greatest memory is her solo-backpacking trip through Eastern Europe and the Middle East after college and then teaching English in a rural coal mining village in Poland.
A native of the North Shore in Massachusetts, Kelli is a graduate of Boston University where she earned a Master's degree in journalism. She earned a Bachelor's degree in political science and government from Mount Holyoke College.
Kelli's last day at WHDH was December 14.
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