Leslie Gaydos is NBC10 Boston’s consumer investigative reporter.
She leads our NBC10 Boston Responds team, which responds to consumer complaints and advocates on our viewers’ behalf. She works with a team of specialized producers to help consumers settle disputes and their efforts have resulted in more than a million dollars being returned to local viewers.
In addition, Leslie provides important and impactful information to viewers weekly -- from product safety concerns to warnings about scams and frauds, to advice on how to be a saavy consumer.
She joined NBC10 Boston and NECN in 1995 as a general assignment reporter, eventually becoming a news anchor.
Leslie won a national Edward R. Murrow Regional Award for Investigative Journalism in 2009 for a documentary that she wrote and co-produced called the "The Forgotten Fire." The story shed light on extensive code violations in a Newton, Massachusetts, office building where five people died trying to escape a fire in 2000. It was credited with helping to pass stalled legislation that closed a loophole in state sprinkler laws and regulations. The story also won a regional Associated Press Award for best documentary.
She contributed to a collection of in-depth reports that won NECN the Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Broadcast Journalism Award. In addition to her Edward R. Murrow and Associated Press awards, she is an Emmy Award winner, a Gabriel Award winner, and was honored by the American Women in Radio and Television with a Gracie Award.
Leslie began her career in television as a reporter and anchor at WTRF-TV in Wheeling, West Virginia. She is a native of the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, area, and holds a degree in broadcast journalism from Boston University. She lives with her husband and three kids in the suburbs west of Boston.
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