Brandon Wissbaum
Executive Producer of Investigations
Wilmington, NC
Brandon specializes in crime, consumer and data-driven investigations. Before joining InvestigateTV, he was assistant news director at WECT, Gray Television’s NBC affiliate in Wilmington, NC. He also led the station’s investigative team, which under his guidance produced award-winning reporting on a wide range of important issues. He is a graduate of UNC Wilmington and still resides in Wilmington with his wife and son.
Some workers who cut and shape these stone slabs in small local fabrication shops are becoming deathly ill from a disease called silicosis.
Some for-profit schools promise a faster path to better jobs. But some students say the real cost is years of debt and broken promises.
They power our devices every day but when lithium-ion batteries fail the damage can be fast, violent and life-changing.
Cameras have popped up across the nation. It’s part of an always-on mass surveillance system called Flock Safety, a for-profit company that markets its cameras and searchable databases to police departments.
Firetruck orders backlogged across the country, a problem that is costing taxpayers and potentially lives.
Cybersecurity experts warn outdated, poorly secured office printers can give hackers an easy path into government and business networks.
We look at deepfakes and a growing online threat for teens
This Week on InvestigateTV+ Weekend, forensic testimony in hundreds of trials abandoned over flaws in science
Key data about how many pediatric surgeries are performed is still hard to find.
We spoke with military doctors who warned the people who treat them may not have enough hands-on experience to be ready.
College football’s biggest checks aren’t always for winning – they can also be for walking away.
As data centers surge across the U.S., experts warn of rising utility bills and threats to grid reliability
Nearly 3 million Americans live sicker, shorter lives in the hundreds of rural counties where doctor shortages are the worst and poor internet connections mean little or no access to telehealth services.
Technological gaps handicap rural hospitals as billions in federal funding to modernize infrastructure lags. Reliance on dated systems is eroding care.
Cardiac arrest is the top cause of death among young athletes in the U.S. However InvestigateTV found that not all schools across the country don't carry automated external defibrillators.
Taxpayers, through federal infrastructure programs, have paid billions of dollars to internet companies to hook up rural Americans. Some communities have nothing to show for it.
Idling trains are a huge problem in communities across the country - with emissions impacting the environment and the health of people who live nearby as trains sit for hours pumping out pollutants.
From a nurse who stole pain medications intended for hundreds of women to an anesthesiologist operating a years-long, multi-million-dollar pill mill, diversion is a pervasive issue with few barriers to prevent it.
“I feel hopeless. I feel helpless." A New Jersey family is demanding accountability and transparency after a non-verbal family member suffered mysterious injuries, bruising and more while in the care of a Group Home.
Following the deadly midair collision on Wednesday, our investigators found that dozens of close calls have been reported at Reagan National since 2010.
