Catherine Rentz is a field producer for the American University School of Communication’s Investigative Reporting Workshop and PBS FRONTLINE partnership. She co-produced the partnership’s first documentary, Flying Cheap, which is an investigation of the regional airline industry.
Prior to joining the Workshop, Rentz spent more than ten years in the journalism and business sectors, investigating finances and relations between private and public sectors. Rentz entered the world of finance working at that small Texas company called Enron, where she learned much about reporting on business. She then went on to analyze finance and data from the outside, working at the nonprofits the Gulf Coast Institute and Investigative Reporters and Editors and as a Pulliam Fellow for the Indianapolis Star business desk. She helped produce three PBS FRONTLINE documentaries at Hedrick Smith Productions including Poisoned Waters, Spying on the Home Front and Can You Afford to Retire?, which won the Emmy for best business documentary.
Rentz graduated with a BBA in Finance from the University of Texas and received an MA in Journalism from the University of Missouri.
Stories written by Catherine Rentz
- Will immigrant detainees get protection from abuse? (February 2nd, 2012)
- New documents detail sex abuse of detained immigrants (October 19th, 2011)
- Airlines outsource repairs, but cost-cutting leads to weaker oversight (January 18th, 2011)
- Regional airlines cut cost of flying, at what price? (February 9th, 2010)
- Airline maintenance outsourcing worldwide (January 18th, 2011)
