Jatara McGee, WPXI-TV

Jatara McGee is an investigative reporter and anchors Channel 11's morning newscasts on Saturdays and Sundays. She joined WPXI in February 2024. The Pittsburgh native most recently spent five years at the NBC affiliate in Cincinnati. She covered several national stories, including Damar Hamlin's collapse during Monday Night Football. Her coverage expanded to investigative reports about AED access in schools and school sports. While in Cincinnati, Jatara exposed a pattern of deaths in a local jail and a fraudulent scheme victimizing customers of a used car dealership. She co-produced and hosted two award-winning specials, one focused on the pandemic's impact on youth and a candid conversation with ten Black police officers following George Floyd's death. Her reporting has received numerous awards, including a regional Edward R. Murrow award, a Salute to Excellence award from the National Association of Black Journalists and Ohio Valley Emmy nominations. Before Cincinnati, Jatara spent three years as a multimedia journalist at WSAZ in Charleston, West Virginia. There she covered deadly flooding that ravaged the state in 2017, a two week-long statewide teacher strike and a corruption scandal involving state Supreme Court justices, that resulted in federal charges. Jatara graduated from Shady Side Academy and earned a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism from the University of Maryland. The New Kensington native is married to her high school sweetheart who graduated from Pitt.