Kevin Wing

Professor of Journalism; Television, Print and Multimedia Journalist

Office: DBH 135

Bio

Veteran “Good Morning America” producer and correspondent Kevin Wing, a longtime Emmy Award-winning television journalist in the San Francisco Bay Area, is a professor and lecturer in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at San Jose State University.

Teaching journalism at San Jose State since 2024 -- and in historic Dwight Bentel Hall -- is a homecoming for Kevin. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Journalism at San Jose State. Having the wonderful opportunity to teach the fundamentals and highest standards of television, print and multimedia journalism to the journalists of tomorrow is a dream come true for him.

Kevin teaches JOUR 61 (Writing for Print, Electronic and Online Media), JOUR 130 (Student Media Apprentice), JOUR 140A (Student Media Production: Update News) and JOUR 150 (News Media Management).

In a career in television news that spans nearly four decades, Kevin is a two-time Emmy Award-winning Bay Area and Northern California television journalist, having worked as a news reporter, producer, special projects producer, writer, field producer, assignment editor and news anchor in the region since 1986. As a journalist at KNTV NBC Bay Area for 16 years, Kevin was nominated in 2018 and 2020 for an Emmy Award for best breaking news. And, during his 13 years at KTVU Channel 2, he received two Emmys for best breaking news in 1996 and best daytime newscast, for “Mornings On 2”, in 2000.

Kevin joined KOVR CBS13/CBS News Sacramento in 2024 as special projects producer for its consumer investigative unit. He also produces investigative stories for the CBS News California Investigates franchise, which air on KOVR as well as on KCBS-TV in Los Angeles and KPIX in San Francisco.

From 2006 to 2017, Kevin served as a Bay Area-based ABC News producer and correspondent for “Good Morning America”, a dream job for him because he grew up watching the broadcast beginning in the late 1970s. In addition to “Good Morning America”, he also produced Bay Area and Northern California stories for “World News Tonight”, “20/20” and “Nightline”. He is also principal of an East Bay-based film and video production company, Kevin Wing Media Communications, specializing in corporate and public sector video production, public relations and broadcast media consultation.

Kevin is also a seasoned Bay Area communications and public relations professional, having served the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority’s BART Silicon Valley Extension Project in San Jose as well as BART in Oakland.

In addition to being a proud San Jose State alumnus, Kevin is also a graduate of Ohlone College in Fremont, where he studied television and print journalism and earned his Associate in Arts degree. In addition to teaching at San Jose State, Kevin served as the faculty advisor to Ohlone’s award-winning campus newspaper, “The Monitor”, from 2017 to 2020. From 2023 to 2024, he served as Director of Media Relations and News for Saint Mary’s College of California in Moraga.

In 2013, Kevin received a distinguished honor when the San Francisco/Northern California Chapter of The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences inducted him into the Silver Circle for career achievements spanning 25 years or more. In the nearly eight-decade history of Bay Area and Northern California television dating back to 1948, Kevin is among more than 300 fellow Silver Circle inductees.

Kevin began his television career in 1986 as a news writer and intern at KICU-TV Channel 36 in San Jose. The following year, he joined KTVU Channel 2 in Oakland as a weekend assignment editor. In 1988, he began his first full-time TV job in San Diego as an assignment editor at KFMB-TV Channel 8. The following year, he relocated to Eureka, where he was hired as a news anchor and reporter, eventually becoming the North Coast’s highest-rated news anchor after only two months on the air. In 1990, Kevin returned to the Bay Area when he rejoined KTVU as an assignment editor and reporter for “Mornings on 2” and “The 10 o’clock News.” Kevin also spent four years as a reporter at KNTV in the 1990s when it was San Jose’s ABC affiliate. Kevin was South Bay Bureau assignment manager at KGO-TV ABC 7 in San Francisco from 2000 to 2003.

Career accolades include honors from the Associated Press Television Radio Association, the Radio Television News Directors Association, the San Francisco Peninsula Press Club, the Joey Awards, the Telly Awards and the Communicator Awards. In 2013, Kevin received the 2013 Governors Service Medallion from the San Francisco/Northern California Chapter of The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for his many contributions to the Chapter and to the Bay Area television news industry.

Kevin represented the San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose television market as regional vice president, San Francisco, on the Board of Governors of the San Francisco/Northern California Chapter of The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences from 2012 to 2016 and again from 2020 to 2024. For seven years, from 2012 to 2019, Kevin was editor-in-chief of “Off Camera”, the Chapter’s monthly newsletter distributed to Chapter members in California, Nevada, Hawaii and Guam. Since 2020, he has served as chairperson of the Media Museum of Northern California. He is one of the founding stewards of the Fred Zehnder Memorial Scholarship, in honor of his former KTVU news director.

A Bay Area native, Kevin was born in Oakland and grew up in Fremont, where he graduated from Mission San Jose High School. For many years, Kevin has given his time and talents to his hometown of Fremont. From 1999 to 2019, he was the emcee of the Fremont Fourth of July Parade. He has also created promotional video content for the city of Fremont since 2012. Among his many local video production projects, his 2022 historical documentary about Mission San Jose, “Passport to History: Mission San Jose”, is shown hourly each day as part of visitors’ and tourists’ tours of California’s 14th mission, as is his 2025 historical documentary about the church community of neighboring St. Joseph Catholic Church.