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Consumer

Jeanette Pavini

Jeanette Pavini is a ConsumerWatch Reporter, a part of CBS 5 Eyewitness News and host of "The Real Deal with Jeanette Pavini" which airs on CBS 5 Sunday evenings at 5pm. She is also an active contributer to "Eye on the Bay" and "30 Minutes Bay Area." You can catch her money-saving segments weekdays on Eyewitness Evening News at 5, and Saturday's Early Edition at 7 am. You can catch up on money-saving tips for parents in every issue of Bay Area Parent Magazine.

Jeanette's work investigating and following consumer problems with the cell phone industry and its practices won her The Edward R. Murrow Award and The National Headliner Award for Professional Journalism. Her reports include secrets like designer and brand-name products sold under second labels for pennies on the dollar or how to remodel with recycled materials saving you up to 70% while saving the environment. Jeanette's reports also tackle serious consumer concerns such as air-bag fraud, mortgage fraud, auto-donation scams, identity theft and other stories uncovering how consumers can be taken advantage of. She's the viewers' best friend, helping them to have a voice when trying to solve their consumer problems.

As a consumer reporter and columnist, Jeanette has completed thousands of consumer news reports. She is a five time Emmy-Nominated reporter and winner of the 2004 Peninsula Press Club Award for First Place Serious Feature and Second Place Serious Feature. Her show, The Real Deal, has won the First Place Public Affairs Show and First Place Interview show from the Peninsula Press Club for 2004 and 2005. Her news segments for having a healthy heart have received the C. Everett Koop Award. Her advice has been featured in The Washington Post, Women's Day Magazine, and ABCNews.com, as well as many other periodicals. In 1994, Jeanette began reporting human-interest stories, then moved on as a consumer reporter. She is a fourth-generation San Franciscan.

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