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Former WDIV reporter Chauncy Glover has died at age 39

Online Niel November 6, 2024

Emmy Award-winning journalist Chauncy Glover, known to Metro Detroit viewers for his grassroots work as well as the philanthropic organization he started while working in Detroit, has died unexpectedly at the age of 39.

The circumstances of his death have not been made public.

He had been a news anchor at KCAL since October 2023. The Los Angeles news station announced his death Tuesday, citing a statement from his family:

“We, Sherry and Robert Glover, along with Chauncy’s loving family, are devastated by the unimaginable loss of our beloved Chauncy,” the Glover family wrote. “He was more than a son and a brother – he was a beacon of light in our lives and a true hero to his community.”

According to his biography on the KCAL website, he joined WDIV-TV (Channel 4) in Detroit in December 2011 and within months was promoted to lead night reporter.

During his time with WDIV, he won an Emmy in 2013 for best on-camera talent and two more in 2014 for live reporting and spot news coverage, according to the website of the Michigan chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

In June 2013, he founded the Chauncy Glover Project. According to the nonprofit’s website, Glover began the work after covering a breaking news story in which he witnessed the death of a high school student on a Detroit street after the student tried to rob the school’s basketball coach its.

The organization “is a broad, hands-on mentoring program designed to transform inner-city teenagers into honest, accomplished gentlemen,” according to its website.

The relationship is now based in Houston, where Glover worked at KTRK-TV for eight years after his stint at WDIV, KCAL reported.

According to Glover’s public Facebook profile, he also worked at WTVM in Columbus, Georgia, and Action News Jax in Jacksonville, Florida.

He was originally from Athens, Alabama, and studied journalism, theater and public relations at Troy University in Alabama.

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