Ginger Allen

Ginger Allen is the senior investigative reporter for the CBS Texas I-Team. Since joining CBS 11 in 1999, she has built a career exposing systemic failures, uncovering wrongdoing and holding institutions accountable.

Her recent investigations have examined failures in workers' compensation systems affecting injured first responders, human trafficking and child exploitation, consumer safety concerns involving lithium-ion batteries, the treatment of children with disabilities in Texas schools, and whether safety measures designed to protect mail carriers are preventing heat-related injuries and deaths.

Allen earned national recognition when she helped a North Texas mother track down lifesaving cord blood lost by a blood bank. The investigation led authorities to shut down the company and exposed industrywide loopholes. She uncovered questionable deaths and troubling medical practices at a Texas state jail in a series that contributed to lawmakers eventually closing the facility.

Her other investigations have identified fire safety failures surrounding the death of a Dallas firefighter, leading to procedural changes; exposed stores improperly charging sales tax, prompting a state audit; examined dangerous overheating laptop batteries before recalls affected more than 10 million computers worldwide; pressed the FDA over thousands of unapproved drugs; and uncovered a Dallas County court database that exposed sensitive personal information, prompting officials to overhaul the system.

Her reporting has earned some of journalism's most respected honors, including an Edward R. Murrow Award, multiple Stephen Philbin Awards, a Texas Gavel Award and multiple Emmy Awards. She has also received recognition from The Associated Press, the Press Club of Dallas and the California Department of Health Services.

Outside the newsroom, Allen is committed to strengthening her community. Her family founded the HP Buddy Bowl in 2017, an annual event that gives children with mental and physical challenges the opportunity to play football and celebrate teamwork, inclusion and achievement. She also supports several charitable organizations, including PurpleStride DFW, the Autism Treatment Center, the Greater Keller Women's Club, Young Men's Service League and National Charity League.

At CBS Texas, Allen spent two years anchoring the station's weekend newscasts from 2005 to 2007 before moving to weekday mornings, where she co-anchored "CBS 11 This Morning" from 2007 to 2010.

Before joining CBS 11, Allen was a lead reporter for WLWT-TV in Cincinnati and traveled the country covering major national stories for NBC News Channel affiliates. Her earlier broadcast experience included anchoring and reporting at KBAK-TV in Bakersfield, California; co-hosting KERN Radio; reporting for KMIR-TV in Palm Springs, California; and beginning her television career as a researcher at KCBS-TV in Los Angeles.

Allen grew up in Southern California and graduated from UCLA with a degree in mass communications and an emphasis in media.

At the heart of her work is a commitment to giving a voice to people whose stories might otherwise go untold.