Emmy Award-Winner - Central Great Lakes Chapter
Breaking News Coverage, 2021
Associated Press Reporter of the Year
2019, 2020 (West Virginia), 2021 (Ohio)
West Virginia Broadcasters Association
Best General Assignment Reporting, 2019
Josh Croup is an anchor and reporter at 13abc in Toledo, Ohio.
He started at the station in February 2021. He was promoted to weekend evening anchor in August 2021 and leads on-air coverage on 13abc’s digital platforms of breaking and in-depth stories. His news coverage in Toledo has focused on Ohio politics, economics, COVID-19 and breaking news.
He was named the 2021 Reporter of the Year by the Ohio Associated Press Media Editors. He also won an Emmy Award in 2022 from the NATAS Great Lakes Chapter for breaking news coverage.
Josh previously worked as the evening anchor at WDTV in north-central West Virginia where he also was the executive producer and an award-winning reporter. He was named Best Reporter by the Virginias Associated Press Broadcasters in 2019 and 2020. The West Virginia Broadcasters Association awarded him the recognition of Best General Assignment Reporting in 2019.
Josh also covered the food scene in West Virginia on Tasty Tuesday. The segment won the 2019 Virginias Associated Press Broadcasters award for Best Specialty Reporting and received second-place honors in the same category in 2020.
He was born and raised in Butler, Pennsylvania and went to school at Point Park University in Pittsburgh. He graduated Summa Cum Laude with a B.A. in broadcast reporting with minors in public relations/advertising and broadcast production. Josh was nominated for two Mid-Atlantic Emmy Awards while he was a student and won the 2017 distinction in the college/university on-air talent category.
He has also previously worked for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Pittsburgh Penguins, AT&T SportsNet, WQED and the Carnegie Mellon University Tepper School of Business.