Marty Griffin
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Marty Griffin is an American journalist most notable for investigative reporting. He returned to his hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to KDKA-TV as an investigative reporter in April of 2003. Starting in 2006, Marty also began hosting "The Real Deal with Marty Griffin" on KDKA Radio Newstalk 1020. Since leaving the area, Marty has been in Dallas, Texas, where he worked in both radio and television as a consumer reporter. Marty a strong consumer advocate for several years.
Marty received a Bachelor's degree in Journalism from Ohio University. He has won many awards for reporting and investigative journalism. He won a Regional Emmy for Outstanding Investigative Reporting. An investigative series on a probe of the Dallas Cowboys and Michael Irvin Griffin conducted for the television station KXAS later turned out to be based on false charges, and KXAS in 1997 was forced to pay $2.2 million in settlement [1]of a defamation suit.
In 2006, another one of Griffin's exposes, this time of a local minister who Griffin alleged had propositioned an undercover reporter in an adult book store, led to the minister's suicide[2].
Marty is married to KDKA-TV anchor Kristine Sorensen.
