Ryan Kath Joining the WBZ I-Team

Ryan Kath is joining WBZ-TV CBS 4 in Boston as a reporter for the I-Team investigative unit.

Ryan comes to WBZ from Scripps station KSHB-TV NBC 41 in Kansas City, MO where he was most recently a investigative reporter for the station.

"After 8 great years at 41 Action News - KSHB-TV, I'm excited to announce the next adventure: I've accepted an I-team reporter job at WBZ CBS Boston. It's a homecoming of sorts, my wife and I met and later married in Boston. It's also where I produced my first "investigative" report at Boston University 11 years ago" Ryan announced.

Ryan's investigative work at KSHB has earned more than a dozen Emmy awards in the past four years since he joined the investigative unit, and also received recognition from the Kansas and Missouri Broadcaster's Associations, the Kansas City Press Club and RTDNA's Edward R. Murrow awards.

Ryan has been honored for investigations that uncovered a widespread real estate fraud scheme involving forged signatures of dead people; exposed a questionable multi-million dollar school district contract; tracked down the top parking offenders in Kansas City; and reunited families with cremated remains found in an abandoned funeral home.

In 2014, Ryan and the KSHB 41 Action News investigative team received a prestigious Alfred I. duPont Award for their continuing coverage of the deadly natural gas explosion on the Country Club Plaza. Going to New York to accept the award along the likes of NBC's Brian Williams and CBS' Scott Pelley "was a night we will never forget," Ryan told the Kansas City Star newspaper Wednesday.

Ryan joined KSHB in 2006 as a morning and then evening multimedia journalist. In 2010, he was promoted to investigative reporter and also fills in on the anchor desk.

Previous to KSHB, Ryan was a reporter at KTTC-TV NBC 10 in Rochester, MN.

Prior to his career in television news, Ryan was also a print reporter for the South Washington County Bulletin in Cottage Grove, MN; and a copy aide for the Minneapolis Star Tribune in Minneapolis, MN.

A native of the Twin Cities area of Minnesota, Ryan is a 2002 graduate of Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, MN where he attained a Bachelor's degree in communication studies and Spanish. He is also a 2004 graduate of Boston University where he received a Master's degree in broadcast journalism.

Ryan's ties to Boston are strong, it's not only a much larger television market, but it’s also a “nostalgic place” for he and his wife, he told the Star.

Ryan met his wife Carla while they were both graduate students at BU. Later, when he was working at KTTV, and she as a producer in Jackson, MS, he proposed, and they returned to Boston to exchange vows in the BU chapel.

Joe Bergantino, Ryan’s investigative journalism professor at BU, was also a longtime investigative reporter at WBZ and “I remember him taking us on a tour of the station” he told the Star.

So this seems like one of those full circle moments for him.

Ryan is expected to join WBZ after March.