Tony Coghlan is an award-winning television correspondent and producer with more
than twenty-five years of experience covering major stories around the world. Coghlan
joined Inside Edition in 1998 as a producer and was named Los Angeles
Bureau Chief in 2002.
As a producer for Inside Edition Coghlan covered major news stories
including the Columbine school shootings and landed exclusive interviews in the
Mary Kay Letourneau teacher sex scandal.
As Los Angeles Bureau Chief, Coghlan continues to help Inside Edition
break news with headline-making interviews including an exclusive with Gary Coleman
in which he revealed his secret wedding, as well as obtaining a Phil Spector reality
show pilot that showed the famed producer talking about the murder of actress Lana
Clarkson.
Coghlan has also made Inside Edition a major presence at award
shows and red carpets. Whether it is covering devastating fires in Los Angeles,
celebrity criminal trials or the Academy Awards®, the Inside Edition
L.A. Bureau has been at the forefront of television news.
Before joining Inside Edition, Coghlan was a producer for the newsmagazine
"American Journal." Prior to that, he spent seven years as a foreign correspondent
for Australian television where he covered major American stories including the
Oklahoma City bombing, the first attack on the World Trade Center, the 1994 Northridge
earthquake and the O.J. Simpson murder trial. Coghlan also traveled extensively
throughout Asia and the south Pacific covering military coups in Fiji and riots
in South Korea.
Coghlan began his journalism career working as a reporter for his home town newspaper
in Perth, Western Australia.
He lives in California with his wife and two children.