Erin Cox

Erin Cox grew up in Connecticut and is now an award winning journalist in both investigative and general news reporting.

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Erin arrived at News 8 in 1999 to launch and staff the Waterbury Bureau. Over the next two years, she covered the city's financial crisis and the arrest of the city's mayor. She continues to cover a variety of stories and is often assigned major criminal court cases and politics. Most recently, she was in the courtroom on a daily basis for the high profile Michael Skakel Murder Trial.

The Connecticut Associated Press recently honored Erin for her investigative reporting of serious problems with the state's emissions testing program as well as reporting on the arrest of Waterbury's Mayor.

Erin grew up in Windham and featured her old school, Windham High School, in a story exploring weather education and teaching methods have changed since she graduated. A graduate of the SI Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, Erin is comfortable reporting from every corner of the state.  Her first job was for a small newspaper in Old Saybrook. She has also worked as a Reporter/Anchor at News 12 Connecticut in Norwalk and as an on-air radio anchor/ reporter in Hartford, Putnam, and Stonington.