Chuck Goudie's reputation for being one of the nation’s toughest, fairest, best-sourced and decorated investigative reporters spans several decades in Chicago.

Goudie joined NBC Chicago as senior investigative reporter in early 2025 after nearly 45 years on the air at ABC Chicago.

His reporting regularly zeroes in on organized crime, terrorism, political corruption and global drug cartels.  

Goudie's TV career began at age 12 when he had regular weekly roles on two children's shows that were broadcast on WXYZ-TV in Detroit, Michigan.

His hard-news career began as a Detroit-based reporter/producer with the NBC-owned News and Information Service in 1975, the first 24-hour, all-news national radio network.  

Goudie's first television news reporting position began in 1977 with then-NBC affiliate WSOC in Charlotte, North Carolina. He became the main sports anchor there when it changed affiliations to ABC.

He joined ABC/WLS-TV in Chicago in 1980 as a general assignment reporter and was promoted to chief investigative reporter in 1990.

Goudie's compelling and hard-hitting investigative reporting has won major awards and has frequently produced sweeping results.

For example, it was Goudie's "Licenses-for-Bribes" investigation that revealed Illinois commercial driver's licenses were being illegally sold to hundreds of unqualified truckers. His groundbreaking investigation prompted the FBI to go undercover, leading to dozens of federal corruption convictions -- up to and including former Gov. George Ryan.

His six-month investigation documenting misconduct, accidents and negligence by top members of the Illinois State Police unit that guarded Gov. Rod Blagojevich resulted in an agency overhaul and was a precursor case to Blagojevich's federal convictions and lengthy prison sentence.

His investigation of sexual abuse allegations against the late Roman Catholic Archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, resulted in the cardinal's accuser withdrawing charges. Other important investigations have shut down illegal businesses and shady charities, changed or created laws, and prompted criminal charges and the incarceration of wrongdoers.

Goudie has won many of journalism's top honors, including a national Emmy Award for exposing how government agencies and chemical companies were unprotected against deadly terrorist attacks.

Goudie is recipient of a national Edward R. Murrow Award for Continuous Television News Reporting. He has also received numerous reporting awards from the Associated Press, Emmy awards from the Chicago Television Academy, Peter Lisagor Awards from the Society for Professional Journalists and Herman Kogan awards from the Chicago Bar Association.

In 2018 Goudie was inducted into the Silver Circle of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. 

Goudie has investigated and reported news stories from four continents, from New York's "Ground Zero;" war zones in the Middle East, the Arabian Sea and the Balkans; and from behind the walls of the Vatican.

For a decade Goudie also wrote a weekly news commentary column for the Daily Herald newspaper in suburban Chicago. 

A member of the Investigative Reporters and Editors Association, Goudie is a regular speaker at the IRE international conference.

Born in suburban Detroit, Michigan, Goudie holds a B.A. degree in Telecommunications and Political Science from Michigan State University. He was married to the late Teri Goudie, a former Chicago TV news producer and international media consultant. Goudie has five children and several grandchildren.