Wendy Krantz

Wendy Krantz

(CBS)  Wendy Krantz helped launch the CBS News Investigative Unit as a producer in March 2006, where she has produced a whole series of investigative reports on various injustices within both the private and public sector, most recently taking on the Social Security Administration’s federal disability program that has lead to further congressional scrutiny. She has had more than 10 years with the network, many of which were spent working on investigative stories for both the Wednesday and Sunday editions of 60 Minutes. On that broadcast, her stories ranged from an exclusive story on a U.S. soldier at Guantanamo Bay left brain-damaged by an ill-conceived training exercise; to an undercover investigation into the sale of stolen American identities to illegal immigrants; as well as an in-depth examination of the shadowy world of counterfeit goods in mainland China. She received two Business Emmys while at 60 Minutes. She was also the recipient of a 2005 RTNDA Edward R. Murrow award for overall excellence for a feature story.

Previously, she worked as senior investigator for the Investigative Group International (IGI), headed up by Terry Lenzner, a former Watergate prosecutor, and Raymond Kelly, the current Police Commissioner of New York. In that capacity, she worked on a series of high-profile cases for law firms, financial institutions, government and the media-breaking news in some of the leading national business and legal publications, including Business Week, the National Law Journal and The Wall Street Journal with these investigations.

A native of Pennsylvania, Krantz graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Studies from Dickinson College in 1987. She received a Masters of Science degree from the London School of Economics in 1990, and a Masters of Science degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism in 1994. Having spent considerable time in the former Soviet Union, she began her career with the Helsinki Commission, translating Russian letters from Soviet émigrés into English-later translating chapters for a book on “The Kim Philby Files” published by Little, Brown & Co in 1994.