WGCL Atlanta Launches Investigative Team

Meredith-owned CBS affiliate WGCL Atlanta (DMA 9) has introduced the CBS46 Investigative Team.   

The team has more than 100 years of television reporting experience and includes:

Sally Sears — Sears has worked in the Atlanta market for over 25 years, spending time with both WSB and WAGA.  Her work has been recognized with Emmy Awards and an Associated Press Award.

Karyn Greer — Greer has worked in the Atlanta market for over 25 years, spending 15 years at WXIA.  Prior to that she spent a decade with WGCL as an anchor/reporter.  She’s won multiple Emmy Awards and has worked with countless community organizations in the Atlanta community.

Art Harris — Harris has over three decades of experience in Atlanta.  He got his start with The Washington Post under Bob Woodward and reopened the paper’s Atlanta bureau.  He also spent over a decade with CNN as an investigative correspondent. 

Harry Samler — Samler has been with WGCL for 10 years and has won eight Emmy Awards, including best field reporter in the Southeast region. 

Completing the lineup are WGCL anchors Sharon Reed and Ben Swann. Besides their anchoring, the pair brings investigative reporting experience. Reed has already contributed a number of investigation pieces and Swann has done a number of segments called “Reality Check with Ben Swann.”

Heading up the CBS46 investigative team is news veteran CB Hackworth who joined the station in June as executive producer of special projects.  He is the winner of 22 Emmy Awards.

“It’s a team with not only years of television reporting experience but a team with a number of years in the Atlanta market.  They have contacts and sources that will help us do some incredible investigative work,” said WGCL News Director Larry Perret.