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Reporters
In 2008, Anna Werner was named "Reporter of the Year" by the Associated Press Television and Radio Association and was honored to also receive an Emmy as "Reporter of the Year" in Northern California. These honors are among many Anna has received since joining CBS 5 in late 2004.
In 2007, Anna won her third prestigious National Murrow Award, given by the Radio-Television News Directors Association, when her story on deportation, "One Strike, You're Out" was voted the best hard news story of the year in any large U.S. television market. Her series, "Unabomber, Evidence Revealed," won both the prestigious 2007 Associated Press "Bill Stout Award for Excellence in Enterprise News," and an Emmy Award. She won a 2006 Emmy Award for her investigation of housing fraud in the East Bay, and 2007 Emmy Awards for her series on I.C.E. deportation practices and her segment, "Investigate This," which tackles problems sent in by Bay Area viewers. In 2008 she won four Emmy awards and later four NORCAL RTNDA Awards, including awards for her series of stories on Caltrans' practices of animal dumping. In the area of health practices, her series of stories on the Kaiser transplant unit resulted in the entire unit being shutdown and over 2,000 patients being sent to other hospitals for their care.
Anna's investigative abilities first gained nationwide acclaim when she initiated the national investigation of defective Firestone tires on Ford Explorers, breaking a story which resulted in the largest worldwide tire recall in history. After winning duPont and Peabody awards for her Firestone stories, she won both of these awards again when she uncovered a pattern of poorly performed DNA analyses by the Houston police crime lab which resulted in a pardon for one wrongfully convicted teenager, the crime lab closing, the chief of police resigning, and 1500 DNA samples being reexamined.
Anna's work has won numerous other first place awards, including three Society of Professional Journalists awards, two Investigative Reporters and Editors awards, a George R. Polk Award, a National Headliner award, a total of five APTRA awards, and a total of twenty-one Emmy Awards.
A Chicago area native, before coming to CBS5 Anna worked at the CBS affiliate in Houston, in Indianapolis, and in several cities in Illinois.
