Johnny Edwards

Johnny Edwards joined FOX 5’s I-Team as an investigative reporter in 2023, making the jump to broadcast news after 25 years on the print side of the business. He previously worked at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where he served on the investigative team and won numerous awards for rooting out corruption and abuse.

Johnny is an Atlanta native who grew up in Cobb County and graduated from the University of Georgia’s journalism school with a degree in telecommunications. He later worked at daily newspapers in Marietta, Canton, Lynchburg, Va., and Augusta. While working for The Augusta Chronicle, he spent time as an embedded reporter with U.S. Marines and Army Reservists during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Over the course of his career, Johnny reported on how two rural sheriffs turned jail inmates into personal laborers for their reelection campaigns and private businesses; how a DeKalb County commissioner engineered a kickback scheme to cover up her financial problems; and how a former Georgia Speaker of the House used legislative leave privileges to delay criminal cases for clients of his private law practice. At FOX 5, he has exposed how Atlanta police might have saved a 4-year-old child from starving to death if they’d followed their own policies; how school zone speed cameras handed out hundreds of thousands of dollars in bogus speeding tickets; and how state and federal environmental officials failed an Athens community being poisoned by forever chemicals.

Johnny and his wife live in DeKalb County and have one adult daughter. Johnny is a history buff, a Jekyll Island lover, a certified scuba diver, and lost count of how many Dylan and Dead shows he’s seen. Along with his daughter, he’s a major Hawks fan.

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