Chris Ingalls

Notable work and positions

KING 5 (Seattle) - Investigative Reporter

Biography

Chris Ingalls is an investigative reporter at KING 5 in Seattle, where he has worked since 1994 and covered the federal criminal justice beat since shortly after 9/11. He began his broadcast career in radio at WHIO in Dayton, Ohio, while a student at Wright State University, later moving to WHIO's television newsroom, where he covered the crime and courts beat for five years. His investigations at KING 5 have led to new Washington state laws keeping guns out of the hands of felons and domestic abusers, targeting welfare fraud, uncovering corruption at state-licensed drug and alcohol treatment centers, and improving monitoring of offenders on home detention. His reporting on the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division, which led to an FBI roundup of members across four states after they threatened him and other journalists, earned him the 2020 Don Bolles Medal from Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE), awarded to journalists who show extraordinary courage against intimidation. He has also won a Peabody Award (2011), a national Emmy Award for investigative reporting by a local TV station (2013), a national Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists, and multiple regional Emmy and Murrow Awards.

Career highlights

• Peabody Award 2011.
• National Emmy Award 2013 · For investigative reporting by a local television station.
• Don Bolles Medal, IRE 2020 · For courageous reporting on the Atomwaffen Division neo-Nazi group despite threats and intimidation.