PITTSBURGH -- Call 4 Action reporter Aaron Saykin joined the WTAE Channel 4 Action News team in July 2006. Before that, he worked as an investigative and general assignment reporter at WGRZ in Buffalo, N.Y.

He also has worked as a general assignment reporter at WECT in Wilmington, N.C., and as a producer and fill-in reporter at WGGB in Springfield, Mass. Also, he previously wrote for several newspapers in the same area.

In Buffalo, Saykin shared multiple AP and Best of Gannett Awards for his reporting. While working in North Carolina, he won the 2002 AP award for feature reporting and five awards from the Electronic News Association of the Carolinas for political, investigative and feature reporting.

Saykin is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and also studied at Oxford University's Trinity College. He was born and raised in western Massachusetts.

In his free time, Saykin follows political news on television and in print. He’s a movie buff and a die-hard fan of the Boston Red Sox and the New England Patriots.