Jennifer Jo Janisch

Jennifer Jo Janisch is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and investigative reporter. She is currently a Senior Producer of Video at The New York Times.

Her most recent film, which she executive produced, is "Generation 9/11," which debuted on Netflix in September 2026, to commemorate the 25th anniversary of 9/11.

Most recently, she directed and executive produced "Perilous Passage: Birth in America," a feature documentary on HBO Max about maternal health in the United States. She is executive producer of "Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War," a nine-part Netflix series (Mar. 2024) and producer of "Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror," a five-part Netflix series (Sept. 2021). She also co-produced the twice Emmy-nominated, two-part HBO film "Agents of Chaos" (Sept. 2020) about Russian interference in the 2016 election, directed by Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney.

She spent eight years contributing original investigative reporting to the CBS Evening News and CBS This Morning. She won Emmys in 2018 (Air Force Academy sexual assault) and 2017 (Wounded Warrior Project charity) for the Investigative Reporting category; a second place National Headliners Award and an honorable mention from the White House Correspondents Association (Air Force Academy, 2018); and she was a finalist for the 2016 Scripps Howard investigative reporting award (Wounded Warrior Project, 2017).

She spent the early part of her time on the CBS News investigative team investigating the healthcare of veterans, and the consequences of war on civilians and culture heritage in the Middle East. She also contributed reporting in countless breaking news events. Her past stories were among those honored with a 2015 Edward R. Murrow Award for Continuing Coverage of the War Against ISIL, and the investigative team of which she was a member won the 2014 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for its coverage of the Sandy Hook massacre. She has shared seven other Emmy nominations for her contributions in the news and documentary field.

Before joining CBS News, Janisch associate-produced a five-part series for PBS “Wide Angle” called “Women, War & Peace," which won two 2011 Overseas Press Club awards (for best television documentary on international affairs and Best Latin America reporting), the 2012 Gracie Award for outstanding series, and a 2012 Television Academy Honors award.

She began her career in the summer of 2009 as an intern at CBS News “60 Minutes.”

She has taught the next generation of journalists at her alma mater, the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, since 2017.