Reporters
Kirstin Cole
Kirstin Cole is CBS 2's consumer reporter. She joined WCBS-TV in 2001 as a general assignment reporter and has also served as co-anchor of the station's weekend news broadcasts (2001-2003 and again from 2006-2007).
Kirstin appears daily on CBS 2 HD exposing scams and dangerous products and is responsible for getting thousands of dollars back to countless consumers. Frequently going undercover, she has warned viewers about unsafe products and abusive consumer practices. Her reporting has spanned ineffective sunblock, illegal botox, drunk high rise construction workers, appliance repair rip-offs, child discrimination, abusive daycare and diamond buying scams.
Prior to WCBS-TV, Cole has served as a reporter and anchor for WPIX-TV New York (2000-2001). In addition to her responsibilities as reporter, she also produced special projects, including a series on Marine training.
Cole began her career at WLNY-TV New York as anchor/reporter for the station's weeknight newscast (1995-97). Her credits include reports on the crash of TWA Flight 800 and the slow responses of several ambulance companies throughout Long Island. She has also anchored and reported for WSYX-TV and WTTE-TV Columbus, OH (1997-99). There, Cole spearheaded investigations into abusive nursing homes, covered the aftermath of devastating floods, and went inside a local jail to explore the high rate of repeat offending mothers.
Cole has been honored with a New York Emmy Award for Crime Reporting, from the Society of Silurians for Investigative Reporting and from the New York Press Club for best consumer reporting.
Cole is a summa cum laude graduate of Chicago's Loyola University with a degree in communications and a concentration in journalism. She currently resides in New York with her husband and child.