Gordon Tokumatsu

Gordon Tokumatsu is an Emmy Award winning general assignment reporter for NBC4's award-winning "Channel 4 News" in Los Angeles.

Updated 7:50 PM PDT, Tue, Jul 28, 2009

Print Email Share TWITTER FACEBOOK

Gordon Tokumatsu is an Emmy Award-winning general assignment reporter for NBC4's "Channel 4 News" in Los Angeles.

Tokumatsu has covered many breaking news stories since joining NBC4 Los Angeles. Among some of the more memorable was Tokumatsu's story about an LAPD officer who ticketed an elderly woman for moving too slowly in a crosswalk, instead of assisting her to cross the street. The story sparked National interest and was picked up by a number of media outlets.

He also introduced viewers to a talented 6-year-old artist who was losing her sight to a hereditary disease, has reported from Space Camp in Alabama, the bridge of a NASA space shuttle and the cockpit of an F-16 fighter jet.

Tokumatsu was first to reveal the identities of two men arrested in the deadly 1997 North Hollywood bank robbery/shoot-out, and the first to report on the controversial harvesting of corneas by the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office. Tokumatsu also covered the tragic Oklahoma City bombing and the 1994 Northridge earthquake.

Tokumatsu joined the NBC4 Los Angeles in December 1993 from KCRA-TV, the NBC affiliate in Sacramento, where he was a general assignment reporter from 1991 to 1993. He also hosted and produced Perceptions, a quarterly documentary-style Asian public affairs program. In 1992, he provided sole live coverage of Hurricane Iniki from Hawaii for all satellite news networks. His reports were aired Worldwide via the NBC News Channel and other outlets.

Before that, Tokumatsu was a general assignment reporter for KLAS-TV in Las Vegas and started his TV career at KESQ-TV in Palm Springs, California. He was bitten by the broadcasting bug while working as a newswriter at KNX News Radio in Los Angeles.

A native of Hawaii, Tokumatsu is half "Nisei," or second generation Japanese-American. He is also half English/Norwegian. He dedicates much of his time to supporting Asian community events, and is a member of the Asian American Journalists Association. He enjoys writing mystery fiction, camping, working out and mountain biking. Tokumatsu lives in Los Angeles.