Larry Yellen Biography
Larry Yellen is an American Journalist who FOX 32 as an investigative reporter and legal analyst. He has been fortunate enough to win lots of awards, but even more important has been the opportunity to produce stories that make a difference by saving lives or taxpayers’ dollars. And while he loves what he does, he has managed to find time over the years for tennis, fly fishing, but most importantly, his family.
Larry Yellen Age
Yellen was born on January 4, 1943, in Brooklyn, New York, United States. He is 76 years old.
Larry Yellen Education
Yellen is a graduate of Waukegan Township High School, who went on to attend the University of Michigan and study Journalism. At Michigan, he was the recipient of a Chick Evans Scholarship from the Western Golf Association; it’s a great program, based in the Chicago area, which puts golf caddies through college.
Then he went on to Northwestern University Law School, and then to his first job in Journalism, as a newspaper reporter for the Muskegon (Mi.) Chronicle. Muskegon’s about four hours from Chicago; one of my fondest memories there is cross-country skiing to work in heavy snow–it was sometimes the only way to get the newspaper out.
Larry Yellen Career | Fox
Muskegon is where he did his first investigative reporting, and he used the experience to move on to a three-year stint with the Better Government Association in Washington D.C. From Washington, it was back to Chicago, where he worked for eleven years with WLS-TV before joining FOX Chicago News in 1993.
At FOX, he was hired to do investigations, but soon thanks to the O.J. Simpson case, he found himself doubling as their legal analyst. In 2010 he became the weekend anchor of their 9 p.m. news. He has investigated dangerous consumer products and local corruption while covering major trials here and legal stories nationwide.
Larry Yellen Weekend Anchor
After 27 years in Chicago television as a top investigative journalist, Larry Yellen is about to add news anchor to his resume.
Nothing is official yet, but WFLD-Channel 32 is close to finalizing a deal to name Yellen solo anchor of its Saturday and Sunday 9 p.m. newscasts. He’s been filling in as anchor of the two newscasts since the recent departures of Byron Harlan and Nancy Pender, whose contracts were not renewed.
If all goes as planned, insiders said, the weekend newscasts would feature Yellen interviewing in-studio guests, mirroring the format of the Fox-owned station’s Monday-through-Friday 9 p.m. newscast, anchored by Bob Sirott and Robin Robinson.
Yellen, 58, has been an award-winning investigative reporter and legal analyst at Channel 32 since 1994. He previously spent more than 10 years as a producer at ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7 and three years with the Better Government Association in Washington, D.C. He played a key role in Fox Chicago’s coverage of the trial of Rod Blagojevich and other high-profile legal proceedings.
The promotion to news anchor represents a significant career advancement for Yellen, who told friends he views it as a way to acquire a new set of skills and increase his versatility. The downside for the station is that it will reduce his duties as an investigative reporter to three days a week.
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Yellen announces retirement
Larry Yellen, who brought a lawyer’s training and a journalist’s curiosity to his coverage of the courts, is retiring after 25 years as an investigative reporter and legal analyst at Fox-owned WFLD-Channel 32.
Yellen, 67, told colleagues Wednesday he’s voluntarily stepping down from full-time employment at the end of September. While he may appear on Fox 32 from time to time as an expert contributor, he plans to spend much of his time traveling with his wife and daughter and pursuing fly-fishing and volunteer work.
“There has been nothing more rewarding than working with all of you,” Yellen told a newsroom gathering called by news director Matt Piacente. “More than this being about my retirement, I want to thank all of you.”
A native of north suburban Waukegan, Yellen graduated from the University of Michigan and Northwestern University Law School before working for the Better Government Association in Washington, D.C.
Shifting to television news, he spent more than 10 years as a producer for ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7. In joining Fox 32 in 1994, he moved from behind the scenes to on camera and played a key role in coverage of Chicago’s most high-profile legal proceedings, including the trials of Rod Blagojevich, R. Kelly and many more.
Yellen doubled as weekend news anchor at Fox 32 from 2010 to 2015, and he continued as a fill-in news anchor after that.
The winner of 10 Peter Lisagor Awards and multiple regional Emmy Awards for his work, Yellen was inducted in the Silver Circle of the Chicago/Midwest chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in 2014. “Great reporter and an even better guy,” tweeted Fox 32 reporter Dane Placko.
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