American journalist Drew Griffin, who died on December 17, 2022, was best known for his work at CNN.
He was born in 1961 or 1962. For ten years, Griffin was an investigative reporter for CBS 2 News in Los Angeles. May 2004 saw his arrival at CNN.
Griffin covered Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath in September 2005. Griffin’s accounts of certain New Orleans police officers’ looting prompted a police investigation. In the wake of Katrina, he also broke news about deaths in nursing homes. Griffin and CNN both received Peabody honors for their coverage of Hurricane Katrina.
Griffin was recognized with a Business and Financial Reporting Emmy Award in 2005 for his coverage of a Ford Motor Company car defect that led to fires in some of the vehicles. In 2006, he won his second Emmy for the CNN Presents documentary How to Rob a Bank. In 2007, he won his third Emmy for the Anderson Cooper 360° piece Hidden Spending, which examined congressional spending. For the story Crisis at the VA, which exposed the scandals of concealed wait times and deaths at VA facilities across the nation, he was given a Peabody award in 2015. His second Emmy, given in 2017, was for Trump University Fraud, a documentary examining the dishonest business dealings at Donald Trump’s real estate academy.
Where did Drew Griffin go to college and high school?
Griffin graduated with honors from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a bachelor’s degree in communications.
