Jennifer Jo Janisch
Emmy Award-winning producer of news Director and producer of documentary films
- Role
- Senior Producer at The New York Times
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Jennifer Jo Janisch
Jennifer Jo Janisch is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and investigative reporter. She is currently a Senior Producer at The New York Times. Her next film, which she executive produced, is slated to appear on Netflix in the fall of 2026. Most recently, she directed \"Perilous Passage: Birth in America,\" a feature documentary about maternal health in the United States for Paramount/CBS (distribution to be announced.) 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. 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.
Experience
Senior Producer
Feb 2026 — Present
Education
Universidad de Alcalá
Spanish
2003 — 2003
Universidad San Francisco de Quito
Spanish, Portuguese, Quechua, Latin American politics and history
2004 — 2005
Columbia University - Graduate School of Journalism
M.S, Journalism; broadcast concentration 2009
2008 — 2009
University of North Carolina
B.A, Spanish, Latin American Studies
2002 — 2005
Skills
- Final Cut Pro
- Field Producing
- Enps
- Canon 5d and 7d Video Camera
- Photographers
- Camera
- Visual Storytelling
- Avid Newscutter
- Interactive Storytelling
- Spanish
- Broadcast
- Avid
- Television
- Breaking News
- Storytelling
- Video
- Still Photographer
- Storyboarding
- Multimedia Storytelling
- Video Camera
- Programming
- Web Design
- Journalism
- Basic Programming
- Line Producing
- Sony Minidv Cameras, Particularly Sony Z5
- Foreign Languages
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