Anna Werner

Anna Werner is an award-winning National Investigative Reporter with a distinguished career covering consumer protection, reporting on corporate misconduct, and exposing system-wide failures. Anna has been consistently recognized for producing impactful journalism that has driven reform, prompted civil and criminal investigations, and profoundly influenced public and corporate policy.

In just the past five years, she earned her second George Polk Award (for “When Medical Devices Malfunction”) the American Association for Cancer Research Biedler Prize for Cancer Journalism (DIEP Flap breast reconstruction), the Gerald Loeb Award and NIHCM Digital Media Award (“Diagnosis Debt”), the National Consumer League’s Trumpeter Award, her fourth Society of Professional Journalists’ award (for “Medical Price Roulette”), and her sixth RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Award (for “Dental Device Investigation”).

These came after previously receiving two George Foster Peabody awards, two duPont-Columbia awards, three Investigative Reporters and Editors awards, two Scripps-Howard Jack R. Howard Excellence in Media awards, a Scripps-Howard Roy W. Howard Award for Public Service, a National Headliner award, a N.Y. Newswomen's Front Page Award, and the A.P.’s Bill Stout Award for Excellence in Enterprise News. She has won 35 Emmy awards, including 4 Best Reporter awards.

Anna is perhaps best known for uncovering the defect in Firestone tires on Ford Explorers, which resulted in the nation’s largest-ever tire recall. A Chicago area native, she was formerly the Senior Consumer Investigative Correspondent for CBS News after stints as an investigative reporter in Indianapolis (WISH), Houston (KHOU), and San Francisco (KPIX).