John Schwada

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John Schwada is a political and government reporter for KTTV Fox 11 in Los Angeles. He has also won two LA Area Emmy awards for his investigative reports. Prior to joining KTTV in 1996, he worked as a political and City Hall reporter for the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner. He also worked for The Los Angeles Times, where he had his own weekly political column. Schwada was a reporter for the Riverside Press-Enterprise, the Arizona Republic and the San Diego Union Tribune before moving to Los Angeles. He worked for The Economist magazine in the 1970's as a freelance writer. He earned a masters degree in American history from the University of California, Berkeley, where he also graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1970 with dual Bachelor of Arts degrees in history and Journalism. Fox Ch11 no longer seriously covers local LA or state politics, police chases and entertainment reports are now the lead at Ch11. The shift has left John to focus on his excellent investigative reports which this year have earned him three LA Area Emmy nominations. This year Schwada was tapped to cover local immigration rallies and student protest walk outs. Despite his own personal views John delivered reasonably fair coverage of the events. However, John's lableing of the students protesting in Los Angeles as radicals lead some viewers to believe Schwada's coverage was biased.