An award-winning WCPO investigative reporter will leave the ABC news affiliate after 13 years.

Dan Monk, who WVXU described as "perhaps the top investigative reporter on Cincinnati TV today," will retire from the Channel 9 studio on Friday, March 27, WCPO confirmed.

Monk joined WCPO in January 2013 as a business reporter after 18 years at the Cincinnati Business Courier. During his time at the station he won four Emmy Awards.

"I think I've written more than 4,000 stories in my career, many of them about issues crucial to the region's long-term survival," Monk told WCPO for his station bio.

His biggest story was a months-long investigation into problems at the Cincinnati VA Medical Center in 2016, according to WVXU. The story resulted in changes in leadership and the indictment of an administrator, the local NPR station reported.

His departure is a "huge loss" to Cincinnati broadcasting, WVXU TV and media reporter John Kiesewetter wrote.

The Cincinnati native has spent his entire 43-year career working in Cincinnati. Before joining the Business Courier, he worked as a news anchor and reporter at WSAI-AM 1360 and WWNK-FM 94.1, according to his LinkedIn.

The West Side resident also graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1983 with a degree in English.

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