Matt Rivers Joins KYW Philadelphia News

Matt Rivers will join CBS-owned KYW (CBS)-WPSG (CW) Philadelphia (DMA 4) as a reporter beginning Monday, Aug. 12.

Rivers joins the stations from KSAT San Antonio, Texas, where he has been a reporter since 2011 specializing in breaking news and in-depth investigative pieces. His three part series into alleged campaign abuses by the Sheriff of San Antonio led to an investigation by the Texas Rangers.

Rivers has also spent extensive time covering the violence surrounding the Mexican drug war. This year he was detained and ultimately released by the Mexican military while reporting on the violence in the Mexican border city of Reynosa.

He also spent a year at KTSM El Paso, Texas, reporting on the daily murders and kidnappings occurring just over the border in Ciudad Juarez.

Rivers is a 2010 graduate of Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Communications, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in broadcast digital journalism and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish. While attending Syracuse, he interned with the 60 Minutes team at CBS News in New York.