Alex Rozier is an American

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, who works as a reporter for NBC 4 in

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Early life and education

When Rozier was four years old, he avidly watched nightly newscasts in his home state of

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. For his birthday that year, he asked to meet his idol:

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news anchor

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, who agreed to meet him after his parents drove almost five hours to get to the news station. Rozier attended Virginia High School in

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, where he was involved with

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National Honor Society The National Honor Society (NHS) is a nationwide organization for high school students in the United States and outlying territories, which consists of many chapters in high schools. Selection is based on four criteria: scholarship (academic achi ...

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, the student newspaper, and choir. In his senior year of high school, he was selected as a delegate to represent Minnesota at the

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event, where he got to see

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. In 2007, while a freshman at the

Missouri School of Journalism The Missouri School of Journalism at the University of Missouri in Columbia is one of the oldest formal journalism schools in the world. The school provides academic education and practical training in all areas of journalism and strategic comm ...

, he joined

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, as a reporter; he later became an anchor as well. In 2010, Rozier was one of five winners of the Pulitzer Center YouTube Project: Report international competition with his reporting project ''Guatemala: The Culture that Crawls''. He graduated from the Missouri School of Journalism in 2011 with a

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in radio-television journalism, where he was the master of ceremonies.

Career

After college, Rozier joined

KHQ-TV KHQ-TV (channel 6) is a television station in Spokane, Washington, United States, affiliated with NBC. It is the flagship (broadcasting), flagship and namesake of the Cowles Company#KHQ, Incorporated, KHQ Television Group, a subsidiary of the l ...

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, in May 2011 as a weekday reporter and weekend anchor. His feature report, called ''The Eyes of a Hero'', aired on

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in 2012 and focused on a local artist who drew portraits of fallen soldiers for their families. In 2013, Rozier won a National Edward R. Murrow Award for his reporting on the story, earning KHQ their first ever national award in company history. The story also earned an

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nomination for "Feature News Report - Serious Feature" at the

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in 2013. On September 15, 2013, KHQ aired his feature report on two brothers who climbed

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40 years after their father vanished from the same mountain, called ''The Climb for Closure''. In 2014, the story was nominated for two Emmy Awards at the 2014 Northwest Emmy Awards and won a national award from the

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. On May 28, 2014, Rozier announced on

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that he was leaving KHQ to report at

KING-TV KING-TV (channel 5) is a television station in Seattle, Washington, United States, affiliated with NBC. It is owned by Tegna Inc. alongside Everett-licensed independent station KONG (channel 16). Both stations share studios at the Home Plate ...

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.
On March 13, 2019, Rozier announced on

that he was leaving KING 5 to report at

WFAA WFAA (channel 8) is a television station licensed to Dallas, Texas, United States, serving the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex as an affiliate of ABC. It is owned by Tegna Inc. alongside Decatur-licensed Estrella TV affiliate KMPX (channel 29), ...

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.
On March 14, 2022, Rozier announced on

that he was leaving WFAA to report at

KNBC KNBC (channel 4) is a television station in Los Angeles, California, United States, serving as the West Coast flagship of the NBC network. It is owned and operated by the network's NBC Owned Television Stations division alongside Corona-licens ...

References

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