A familiar face on WCVB will be signing off later this month.
Longtime TV reporter Matt Reed is the latest to announce he’s leaving a local station.
Reed — a general assignment reporter at WCVB Channel 5 — has been with the station for eight years. His final day will be June 30.
“I can’t say enough wonderful things about my time at ‘The Big Nickel’ and my coworkers, especially the field crews that are like family at this point,” Reed said in a statement.
“My family and I will be staying here in New England, and I can’t wait to share what’s in store next,” he added.
Reed will be staying in the news industry, unlike other broadcast journalists who have switched careers in recent years.
Just last week, 7News Boston WHDH anchor/reporter Amanda Crawford said she was signing off for good. She joined the station in August 2020, and has worked in news for 17 years. Crawford said it was “time for a change,” noting how the news can be “intense and heavy.”
Meanwhile, Reed’s work has been featured in newsrooms around the Hub. He spent his final semester of graduate school at Boston University as a news writer at 7News. Also, during the 2012 Summer Olympics, Reed spent two months in London as one of three student correspondents for WBZ.
He joined WCVB in 2017 from WJAR NBC 10 in Providence, R.I. — where he served as a reporter since 2015. Before that, he was a reporter and producer for weekend newscasts for KCEN in Waco, Texas.
Last week, Reed announced that he was awarded a 2026 Regional Edward R. Murrow Award for “Excellence in Writing.” He won the same award last year.
“It’s surreal going back-to-back,” he posted.
Also, his feature on Greater Boston’s final typewriter repair shopping closing won “Excellence in Video.”
In 2024, he won a New England Emmy for his story on 95-year-old Elaine Lebar, a piano player who battled dementia for more than a decade.
