Ron Regan

Investigator Ron Regan has been an integral part of NewsChannel5 since 1999, and is currently a member of the NewsChannel5 Investigators.

During the span his 30-year career, Ron’s investigations sparked change throughout the country.

The Ohio Drug Donation Law was signed after Ron’s investigation into the dumping of million of dollars in medication that could be used by the sick and dying.

Area highways are safer after Ron exposed the danger of road reflectors prompting an ODOT internal review.

Exposing a defect in the Pontiac GTO resulted in a call for a federal, nationwide safety recall. Ron outed a medi-spa owner for practicing medical procedures with a cosmetology license, which led to his arrest.

After Ron’s investigation into past due docs, police arrested area doctors and dentists who never paid back hundreds of thousands of dollars in school loans.

Ron began making an impact early in his career at WAVE-TV in Louisville, Kentucky. His award-winning investigation into the faulty construction of a nuclear plant resulted in the project being condemned and eventually cancelled.

Ron’s devotion to investigative reporting was diverted many times throughout his career. News directors at several stations, including KRON in San Francisco, put him behind the anchor desk rather than out in the field.

Taking root in Houston at KPRC for the next fourteen years, Ron stepped out of the studio and back onto streets. He won the prestigious Texas Headliner Award for a powerful report on teens who adopted fallen soldiers from their own small towns who died as Vietnam heroes. The chronicle of their lives took the story to an emotional ending at the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C.

Ron was the first reporter to break the story of a Texas cheerleader mother who wanted to give her daughter the best shot at making the squad… by allegedly killing off the competition. The story went national and Ron played himself in the television movie, "The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom."

Ron’s experience also includes exclusive live reports from Frankfort, Germany on the 1985 release of 153 American hostages aboard hijacked TWA flight 847.

Here in Cleveland he has won numerous awards for local investigations raising awareness and calling for action. Regan was named Ohio Best Investigative Reporter in 2006. He also received the National Headliner Award. He is a recipient of the Edward R. Murrow Award for his investigative reporting on Cleveland’s blackout. The Associated Press has honored his work with the 2002 award for Best Investigative Report and the 2003 award for Best Enterprise Reporting. Regan received the Society of Professional Journalists award for Best Investigative Report in 2002. In addition he has won more than 20 national, regional and state awards for his investigations.

Ron earned a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from Penn State University. He enjoys calling Northeast Ohio home with his wife and son.

If you would like to contact Ron, e-mail him at regan@newsnet5.com.