Wayne Freedman

Who is Wayne Freedman?

Wayne Freedman is a feature reporter for KGO-TV; the ABC owned television station in San Francisco, California.

Freedman's education included Chaminade High School near his hometown of Woodland Hills, California. Freedman showed an interest in reporting at an early age, and became published with a regular column in a Los Angeles newspaper at the age of fourteen. He worked as an apprentice at KABC-TV while earning a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles. He continued his academic career studying journalism at the University of Missouri's prestigious program earning a master's degree in 1978.

In the late 1970s Freedman began his television reporting career at WLKY-TV in Louisville, Kentucky before moving on to WAVE-TV. Freedman continued his career at KDFW-TV in Dallas, Texas and then moved to San Francisco in 1981 to work for KRON-TV. By 1989, he had risen to creating feature stories for a nationwide audience for CBS News. In 1991, he began his tenure at KGO-TV and has covered a number of notorious stories nationally for ABC News, including the 1994 Northridge earthquake and Hurricane Katrina.