PJ Randhawa is the Consumer Investigative Reporter for NBC 5 Responds. She previously served as the Investigative Race and Equity Reporter for KING 5 News in Seattle, WA.
PJ’s dedication to the truth and standing up for people’s rights has earned her multiple awards, including being named a 2023 DuPont Finalist, 6 regional Emmy awards, 2 regional Edward R Murrow Awards, a 2022 Crystal Mic for ‘Best Reporter’ from the Illinois News Broadcasters Association, 4 Society of Professional Journalists awards for News Excellence, a 2023 National Excellence in Journalism Award from the NLGJA along with several Missouri Broadcast awards and an International Sikh Award for political reporting.
Prior to joining KING 5 in 2022, PJ was the Lead Investigative Reporter at KSDK in St. Louis. As a result of the positive changes that resulted from her investigations, the city of St. Louis declared January 14, 2022 as ‘PJ Randhawa Day’. Her investigative reporting exposed corruption in police departments, mismanagement in city and state departments, and helped get new laws on the books surrounding sexual assault and cyber stalking.
Prior to 2015, PJ was a political reporter in Columbia, SC and a Morning News Anchor in Rapid City, SD. But before all that, PJ cut her teeth in almost every major Chicago newsrooms as an intern or production assistant.
PJ was born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba and is the proud daughter of immigrant parents hailing from the Punjab region of India. She says after a “VERY” uneventful childhood in Canada, she moved to Chicago in 2005 to attend undergrad at Northeastern Illinois University and eventually obtained her Masters in Journalism from DePaul University. After doing her time in so many different markets, PJ is excited to make a permanent home in Chicago with her fiancé and feisty Pug named Yogi.
If you have a consumer or investigative tip for PJ, reach out to her at PJ.Randhawa@nbcuni.com or on facebook at: facebook.com/pjrreports
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