Jennifer Kraus Bio, Age, Husband, Children, Salary, Net Worth, NewsChannel 5

Jennifer Kraus Biography

Jennifer Kraus is a journalist from the United State working as the Weekend Morning Anchor for NewsChannel 5 and a member of the award-winning Investigative Team.

How old is Jennifer Kraus? – Age

She is 54 years old as of 1 April 2021, she was born in 1967 in Brentwood, Tennessee, United States of America.

Jennifer Kraus Education

Jennifer earned her bachelor’s degree in international relations, political science, and Japanese from Occidental College in Los Angeles.

Jennifer Kraus Husband – Children

She is married to Barry Martin Thomas. The couple has four children. She enjoys reading, cooking, Zumba, and running when she is not occupied with her children. She’s run four half-marathons for the Country Music Marathon.

Jennifer Kraus Career

Her stories have a positive impact. Jennifer uncovered Bill Heard Chevrolet’s unethical business practices as the station’s consumer investigative reporter, and the company quickly closed its Nashville dealership. The US Department of Justice ordered the state to quickly repair conditions at the Tennessee State Veterans’ Home after she uncovered neglect there.

The Metro Nashville Fire Department announced improvements to its detector distribution program after Jennifer highlighted the worrisome failure rate of a popular type of smoke detector. The state penalized the Veterans Support Organization $20,000 and ordered the VSO to adjust how it raises money after her inquiry. Following Jennifer’s study on the risks of novelty lighters, Tennessee lawmakers voted to outlaw them.

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Her well-publicized undercover investigations into disabled parking permit exploitation prompted politicians to tighten the conditions for obtaining these special placards. Jennifer’s career as an investigative reporter at NewsChannel 5 began after she discovered top management at Feed the Children’s regional warehouse and headquarters stealing from the organization. The executive director of the Oklahoma City-based nonprofit was then sacked, and the Nashville District Attorney brought charges against him.

Jennifer began her career as a general assignment reporter for NewsChannel 5 in 1994. Some of the highlights include traveling with troops from Fort Campbell to Nicaragua and El Salvador after Hurricane Mitch, conducting one of the last interviews with James Earl Ray, the assassin of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in prison just before his death, and getting the first interview with convicted serial killer Paul Dennis Reid from his jail cell right after his arrest.

Jennifer spent more than ten hours on set co-anchoring NewsChannel 5’s live coverage of the unprecedented floods in middle Tennessee in May 2010. Jennifer’s work has received regional Emmy Awards for Investigative Reporting and Business & Consumer Reporting, Tennessee Associated Press Awards for Consumer Reporting, two National Headliner Awards for Consumer Reporting, two National Press Club Awards for Consumer Reporting, a national Edward R. Murrow Award for Investigative Reporting, and a national Edward R. Murrow Award for Investigative Reporting, as well as the national American Legion’s Fourth Estate Award twice.

Jennifer formerly worked at WSFA-TV in Montgomery, Alabama, WSIL-TV in Carterville, Illinois, KGET-TV in Bakersfield, California, and KHJ/KCAL-TV and KCBS-TV in Los Angeles, California, before joining NewsChannel 5.

Jennifer Kraus Salary

She earns an annual salary of $1 Million.

Jennifer Kraus Net Worth

She has an estimated net worth of $2 million.