CBS News Adds Five To Investigative Unit

CBS News is expanding its investigative unit by adding five new journalists. In its announcement, the news organization said the move showed a “commitment to in-depth and groundbreaking journalism” that will “strengthen the News division’s commitment to producing indispensable journalism that holds power to account and drives audiences across all platforms.”

Joining the investigative unit immediately are: former Washington Post journalist Daniel Gilbert, The Free Press writer Gabe Kaminsky, and CBS News’ Laura Geller, Jake Rosenwasser and Callie Teitelbaum.

“We are committed to producing more revelatory journalism every day,” said Bari Weiss, editor-in-chief of CBS News. “Our job is to tell our audience something they didn’t know that impacts their world. We’ve recently seen it with our I-Unit’s exclusive investigation into hospice care fraud, which moved Congress to act. We’re going to keep investing in and growing an investigative journalism team that’s well-resourced and can deliver eye-opening reporting to audiences wherever they are.”

The new investigative unit team members “scale up CBS News’ focus on delivering compelling, incisive reporting that can’t be found elsewhere on any platform,” the announcement states, and the expansion will include “a push into deeper exclusive coverage of health and wellness, politics, sports and waste of taxpayer dollars.”

“The investigative unit will produce work across the News division, with an emphasis on reaching new audiences through an array of digital platforms,” said Matthew Mosk, senior investigative editorial director. “This is just the beginning of an expansion, as we continue to search inside and outside the company for talented journalists with a hunger for eye-popping original reporting.”

About the new investigative unit members (descriptions from CBS News):

Daniel Gilbert is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter who joins CBS News from The Washington Post. While at the Post, Gilbert wrote original stories about the business of medicine, covering everything from the rise of weight loss drugs to the dangers of gene therapy to the killing of the UnitedHealthcare CEO. He previously spent seven years as an investigative reporter for the Seattle Times, and before that, covered business for The Wall Street Journal in Houston.

Gabe Kaminsky joins CBS News from The Free Press, where he has produced incisive and illuminating reports on the intersection of money, politics and influence in Washington, D.C. Most recently, Kaminsky has delivered exclusive reporting on the rise of foreign lobbying, the pardon broker industry and President Trump’s investigations of nonprofits after the killing of Charlie Kirk. He grew up outside Philadelphia and graduated from the University of Pittsburgh.

Laura Geller moves to the I Unit from the CBS News crime beat, where she helped lead coverage of the Nancy Guthrie abduction case, the mass shooting at Brown University and the influx of ICE agents in Chicago and Minneapolis. Geller has spearheaded investigations into sexual assaults on airplanes, the Butler, Pa., would-be assassin who tried to kill President Donald Trump, and, most recently, broke stories about fraud in the hospice industry in California. Geller is a military spouse and mom born and raised in New York.

Jake Rosenwasser moves to the I Unit from the “Eye on America” team, where he covered topics ranging from the fight to save a Georgia swamp to the new societal scourge of deepfake pornography. A winner of 10 Emmy Awards, two Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards and a Peabody Award, Rosenwasser spent 17 years with HBO, primarily with Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, where he investigated the dangerous practice of weight-cutting in mixed martial arts, preventable football deaths due to heat stroke and the nation’s abrupt reversal on gambling.

Callie Teitelbaum joins the I Unit after covering politics, international affairs and breaking news as a member of Norah O’Donnell’s team for more than three years. Her reporting has appeared on 60 Minutes, CBS News Sunday Morning, CBS Evening News and primetime special events. She previously worked at WNYC Radio.

Watch a preview of the new I-Unit below.