Anna Werner joins InvestigateTV, Gray’s national investigative unit, effective August 18, 2025, Gray Media announced today.
“Gray has demonstrated a long-term, nationwide commitment to producing meaningful stories that change laws and lives,” Werner said. "I cannot wait to join forces with this amazing team of national and local investigators and look forward to working together to expose problems that, without dedicated reporting, often go unaddressed."
Werner brings more than 25 years of investigative experience and a distinguished career, covering consumer protection, reporting on corporate misconduct, and exposing systemic failures, most recently as National Senior Consumer Investigative Correspondent at CBS News, based in New York.
“Anna has led investigations that resulted in the nation’s largest tire recall, the shutting down of a major transplant program, sweeping reforms of a metropolitan crime lab, and ending sales of a medical device causing thousands harm,” Gray’s Senior Vice President of News Strategy and Innovation Lee Zurik said. “She is the perfect addition to the InvestigateTV team’s core strength of solutions-based journalism that makes a tangible difference in the lives of our viewers.”
Werner rose to national prominence while reporting for KHOU 11 in Houston, where she worked alongside investigative producer David Raziq (now with WPXI in Pittsburgh) and photojournalist Chris Henao (former assistant news director at KHOU). Their investigation into defective Firestone tires on Ford Explorers led to the largest tire recall in U.S. history. The issue was initially spotlighted by KPRC 2 Houston following the tragic death of ABC13/KTRK reporter Stephen Gauvain.
At KHOU, Werner and her team also exposed widespread errors within the Houston Police Department's crime lab, leading to reforms.
She joined KPIX 5 San Francisco in 2004, a CBS owned-and-operated station, before moving to CBS News in 2011. She became the network’s lead consumer investigative correspondent in 2019.
Werner’s work has received dozens of awards, including 33 Emmy Awards, six RTDNA Edward R. Murrow Awards, four Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Awards, three Investigative Reporters and Editors Awards, two George Foster Peabody Awards and two duPont-Columbia Awards. She is known for her collaboration with top-tier media partners, including PBS NewsHour, NPR, ABC affiliates, and KFF Health News.
“Anna has a long and proven track record of impactful investigative journalism that gets results. We are thrilled to add an investigator of her caliber to our team and are confident her contributions to InvestigateTV will provide our viewers with even more real solutions,” Gray’s Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Sandy Breland, said.
InvestigateTV reporting is featured weekdays on InvestigateTV+, a half-hour weekday news magazine, on Saturdays and Sundays on InvestigateTV+ Weekend, and on all InvestigateTV streaming platforms. In her new role, Anna will also host a new streaming show.
InvestigateTV recently reported on various issues, including aviation safety concerns, the sale of potentially dangerous products online, and lagging rural broadband internet service. The team has received numerous national awards, including a duPont-Columbia Award, IRE Award, national Edward R. Murrow Award, and NAB Service to America Award.
