Mike Beaudet

Mike Beaudet, the Emmy award-winning investigative reporter, brings years of groundbreaking reporting to Boston’s most experienced investigative unit, 5 Investigates. As a multimedia investigative journalist, Mike is teamed with reporters Karen Anderson and Brittany Johnson in the market leading investigative unit on WCVB NewsCenter 5.

Before joining WCVB in 2015, Mike spent nineteen years at WFXT as an investigative reporter and anchor and worked as an anchor/reporter for WCVB’s sister station WMUR. Mike left his last position at WFXT in September 2015 to become a full-time journalism professor at Northeastern University. Mike continues his teaching position at Northeastern and taps the talents of his students to assist in the in-depth investigations that dually serve as case studies in the classroom.

Over the course of his distinguished career, Mike has received national and regional awards including twenty National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) Boston/New England Emmy® awards. His most recent Emmy came in 2021 when he was named Outstanding Investigative Reporter. Mike and his team have also won numerous Associated Press and Edward R. Murrow Awards for coverage of topics ranging from wrongful convictions to organized crime.

A Massachusetts native, Mike graduated from Emerson College with a Bachelor of Science in Communication and received his Master’s in Journalism from Northeastern University.