Robert Goulston Joining FOX 25 as Reporter

Robert Goulston is joining WFXT-TV FOX 25 in Boston as a reporter. Robert will initially report for the morning news during February Sweeps, New England One has learned.

An Emmy Award winning journalist, Robert comes to FOX 25 from WFSB-TV CBS 3 in Hartford, CT where he was most recently the New Haven bureau chief for Channel 3 Eyewitness News. In that role he has distinguished himself as a compelling, compassionate storyteller with a commitment to providing clear, accurate information to his community.

One of the first journalists on the scene at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT, Robert supplied live reports to CNN and CBS's national special coverage with Norah O’Donnell. He has contributed to national and international outlets on several of the region’s high-profile incidents, such as the Stamford chimpanzee attack, a Bridgeport man’s plot to set off explosives in Times Square, and the Christmas Day (2011) fire in Stamford. Robert was first to ascertain and confirm the name of the suspect in the murder of Yale graduate student Annie Le, and he was the only television reporter to cover both capital trials in the Cheshire home invasion.

Robert came to WFSB from WLNE-TV ABC 6 in Providence, RI where he was a reporter/fill-in anchor. Prior to that, he was a reporter at News 12 Connecticut in Norwalk, CT.

Robert has also worked as a reporter at WTVF-TV CBS 5 in Nashville, TV, New England Cable News in Boston, MA and WZZM-TV ABC 13 in Grand Rapids, MI.

A native of the Boston, MA area, Robert is the son of a Quincy, MA police officer, and studied criminal justice at Northeastern University, through whose cooperative education program he began work in Federal Investigative Services before graduation. After four years as an Investigator, doing background checks in Washington, DC, as well as on-site record checks throughout the US, Robert segued into television at America’s Most Wanted. While there he worked his way up the ranks due to his hard work and creativity. He is most proud of pursuing and producing an AMW segment that led to the capture of a fugitive in a decades-old cold case.

Robert starts at FOX 25 on January 26.