Scott Finn began working as a reporter/producer for West Virginia Public Broadcasting in January 2007. For the previous seven years, he covered politics, government and business for the Charleston Gazette, where he won several national awards. Before that, he founded a family literacy program called Appalread in Logan, West Virginia and spent two years as a VISTA volunteer in Big Ugly Creek, West Virginia. He lives in Charleston with his wife, Wendy, and two children, Max and Iris.