Chris Derose

Background

About Chris Derose

As of October 2022, Chris has returned home to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and has been working for CBS News Pittsburgh and moreover, the legendary station KDKA as a News and Features Reporter. In little over a year, he has worked on hundreds of stories and covered many major events both in and around the city. Chris is a two time Emmy Award Nominee and in October of 2023, he won an Emmy for his Breaking News reporting of the East Palestine Train Derailment. Chris started his professional career in Chicago back in 2007. Coming to the Windy City just after college, Chris studied improv and sketch comedy, as well as writing and acting at world famous theaters like The Second City, iO, and Comedy Sportz. He quickly became a staple in the Chicago comedy scene and even help found the musical improv group Mansical. It was also during this time, that he was “discovered” while working as a Chicago City Tour Guide on board a double decker bus. A producer from a local television show spotted Chris and offered him a job on TV. The rest is history. That launched Chris’s career as a daily feature reporter on You & Me, a fun morning television show on WCIU-TV. During his time at 'You & Me,' Chris logged hundreds of hours both in front of and behind the camera, working on multiple stories at any given time. He was best known for his live morning features, ‘Did U Know‘ history pieces, comical man-on-the-street ‘Movie Trivia’s,’ and insightful travel segments. At the end of 2016, Chris moved to Los Angeles, California where he freelanced as an actor, writer and producer. While in LA he also started working as a Freelance Associate Producer on the 'Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast' and as a Studio Tour Guide/ VIP Guide at Universal Studios Hollywood. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit and work in Los Angeles dried up, Chris jumped back in broadcasting, going to work for the EW Scripps Company in Billings, Montana. Chris became a Weather Anchor and Multimedia Journalist with KTVQ and the Montana Television Network and worked there from 2020-2021. In the Spring of 2021, Chris moved to another Scripps station, KSTU in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he became a Features Reporter with 'Good Day Utah,' as well as a Host and MMJ for the station's Lifestyle/Entertainment show 'The Place.' Chris is a graduate of McDaniel College in Westminster, Maryland, and holds a BA in Theater Arts. He was raised in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, a small town just outside of Pittsburgh, which was also home to golf legend Arnold Palmer and television’s Fred Rogers.