BOSTON -- Sean Kelly is an Emmy award winning investigative and general assignment reporter for WCVB-TV Channel 5. In 2010, he received the New England Emmy for On-Camera Investigative Reporter. He’s one of the original members of Team 5 Investigates, the station’s investigative unit. His stories have uncovered government waste, corruption and consumer fraud.

He joined NewsCenter 5 in December 2005 after reporting for several years at WPBF-TV, West Palm Beach, where he worked as a general assignment and political reporter. WCVB and WPBF are both owned and operated by Hearst Television Inc.

At WCVB, Kelly has reported on numerous stories that gained national headlines including the Neil Entwistle and “Craig’s List Killer” murders as well as the Clark Rockefeller kidnapping case. He was also on-scene for the Big Dig tunnel collapse and the Danvers chemical plant explosion.

Kelly has reported from the scene of major national stories including the 2000 Presidential election recount in Palm Beach County, Fla.; the first U.S. fatal anthrax attack in Boca Raton, Fla.; and the hospice where Terri Schiavo died.

While at WPBF, Kelly reported live in Florida, Mississippi and Louisiana during five major hurricanes, including Katrina. He was one of the first reporters to arrive at Cape Canaveral in 2003 following the explosion of the Space Shuttle Columbia.

Prior to joining WPBF, Kelly reported for KHBS/KHOG, the Hearst-owned station in Fayetteville/Fort Smith, Ark.

He’s a graduate of Villanova University and Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. Kelly started his career in television at ABC News in New York. He currently resides in Boston.