Kirstin Garriss is an award-winning investigative journalist with experience covering national politics at both the local and national levels.

 

Most recently, she was a Washington Correspondent for Cox Media Group (CMG) where she covered the White House, Congress, Supreme Court and national issues for more than a dozen local TV and radio stations. Her reporting expertise included election security, transportation, healthcare and consumer trends. Kirstin was also a 2023 Paul Miller Washington Reporting Fellow. 

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On the local level, Kirstin was an investigative reporter at FOX13 Memphis where she won a 2021 Regional Murrow Award for her two-part series, "Black in America: Generational Pain and Healing" highlighting the experiences of four generations of Memphis men about racial inequity.

 

Kirstin also worked as the Government Reporter for Spectrum News in Charlotte, NC where she covered the 2016 Republican National Convention and Democratic National Convention along with Charlotte's bid for the 2020 Republican National Convention. Kirstin has also worked at WDVM (formerly WHAG-TV), at NPR and NBC News in Washington, D.C.

 

Kirstin is a 2021 Gracies Award winner, a nationwide honor from the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation recognizing women in the media industry.