Arnold Diaz (born July 4, 1949) is an American television consumer watchdog journalist who retired on 3/29/2022 last employed by

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in New York. Diaz is famous for his Shame on You series of reports which he did on

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for over twenty years. Diaz also worked for

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and

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in similar capacities, with the latter taking a page from WCBS and naming the segment Shame Shame Shame. He focuses most of his reports on exposing wrongdoings and incompetence by private industry and government agencies. His reports have led to jail time for a number of scam artists.

Education

Diaz obtained his degree from

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where he was a

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. He later received his master's degree in journalism from the

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Career

Diaz first reported for

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from the early to mid-1970s, then moved to WCBS-TV in New York, where he served from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s. During his time at WCBS, Diaz won 25 local

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s. He has won a total of 48 Emmy awards throughout his career. Diaz later worked for ABC's ''

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'' as the show's Consumer Investigative Reporter from 1995 to 2003. During his time with ''20/20'', he won the National Press Club Consumer Journalism Award and the Consumer Federation of America Media Service Award. He returned to WCBS in 2003 and revived the ''Shame On You'' segment, lasting there until moving to WNYW in 2006, where Diaz's segment continued under the new title of ''Shame, Shame, Shame''. In 1995, Diaz was induced into the National Academy of Arts and Sciences Silver Circle. In January 2014, it was announced Diaz would no longer be working for WNYW-TV. On March 31, 2014; Diaz joined

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as part of the newly-formed "PIX11 Investigates" unit with longtime reporters Mary Murphy and chief investigator Howard Thompson.

Family

Arnold Diaz lives in

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, with his wife and three children.

References

1949 births Living people American television reporters and correspondents Consumer rights activists Journalists from New York City People from Port Chester, New York New York (state) television reporters 20th-century American journalists American male journalists {{US-journalist-1940s-stub