Anna Werner

Anna Werner is the national consumer correspondent for New York-based CBS Mornings. His reports also appear on all CBS News broadcasts and platforms, including CBS Evening News, CBS Sunday Morning, 48 Hours, and the CBS News Streaming Network, CBS News’ premier streaming news service. 24/7. Since joining CBS News in 2011, Werner has traveled the world.

Werner has reported on a number of research stories on topics such as phone scammers, insulin prices, fraudulent generic drugs, harmful beauty products, high medical costs, lead in drinking water, breast implant cancer risks , financial scams on the elderly and theft of graves from natives. artifacts. He has also investigated hacking medical records, illegal dietary supplements, sperm donor anonymity, heavy metals in fruit juices, Instagram scams, child sexual abuse, dangerous plastic surgery in Mexico, JUUL e-cigarette addicts , medical device piracy, glyphosate. on breakfast foods and the risks of crowdfunding. His stories about the dangers of methylene chloride caused the toxic paint stripper to be removed from the shelves of most major domestic retailers.

On CBS News, Werner’s stories have been widely accepted. His award-winning reports have included a story about electric shock devices used in students at a special needs school in Massachusetts who won a New York Newswomen’s Front Page Award for Best Television Feature and a report on a district attorney who was shot in the scales in Kaufman County, Texas, who hosted a Murrow-winning CBS Evening News.

Prior to joining CBS News, Werner distinguished herself as a nationally recognized investigative reporter at CBS stations in Indianapolis (WISH), Houston (KHOU), and San Francisco (KPIX).

At KHOU, Werner began the national investigation into defective Firestone tires at Ford Explorers, breaking a story that led to the world’s largest tire recall in history. After winning the duPont-Columbia and George Foster Peabody Awards for his Firestone stories, he won those two awards again, along with an Edward R. Murrow RTNDA Award when he discovered a pattern of inaccurate DNA analysis by the lab. of Houston Police Crimes The stories led to a pardon for an unjustly convicted teenager, the closure of the crime lab and the re-examination of hundreds of DNA samples.

At KPIX, Werner won two more Murrow Awards, one for a story about ICE expulsion practices and another for donated clothing that ended up being sold for profit in Africa. That same year, his series, “Unabomber, Evidence Revealed,” won the Associated Press Bill Stout Award for Excellence in Business News. He received his first Murrow Award while working at WISH, where his hidden camera research showed severe abuse of developmentally disabled patients at the New Castle State Developmental Center, leading to the closure of the center.

Werner’s coverage has won many other awards, including three Society of Professional Journalism Awards, three Investigative Journalists and Publishers Awards, two Scripps-Howard Jack R. Howard Excellence in Media Awards, and a Scripps-Howard Roy Award. W. Howard for public service, a George R. Polk Award, and a National Headliner Award. Werner was named Chris Harris Reporter of the Year by the Associated Press Radio and Television Association in 2008 and 2010 and Journalist of the Year by the California Consumer Federation in 2010. She has won 33 Emmy Awards, including the best journalist in 2000 and 2001 and again in 2008 and 2009.

Werner, originally from the Chicago area, graduated with a degree in broadcasting journalism from Northern Illinois University.