Career
After graduating from Northwestern University with a degree in journalism, she went on to Washington, District of Columbia where she handled production duties for The Today Show, National Broadcasting Company Nightly News, and National Broadcasting Company News Updates. She also reported for National Broadcasting Company’s all-news radio station. There, she attracted the notice of the Independent Television News Association which hired her to cover Capitol Hill, and later, The White House.
When Ted Turner launched a 24-hour cable news television channel, Cindy was chosen for the management team that created Cable News Network. She opened Cable News Network’s Chicago bureau, serving as Bureau Chief and Midwest Correspondent.
Hired by The Tribune Company in New York to anchor and report for a nationally syndicated nightly newscast, as well as WPIX-television’s local newscast, Cindy was honored with two Emmy nominations for Best Spot News Reporting and Best Public Affairs series. When Tribune teamed up with Dow Jones to launch an innovative business news program, Cindy was tapped to Produce, Anchor and be Senior Correspondent of The Wall Street Journal Report.
Moving to Los Angeles, Cindy’s work for Fox News At Ten was honored with an Emmy nomination for Best News Reporting. Hired by Disney to report and anchor for KCAL-television, Cindy earned two Golden Mike Awards for Best Coverage of the Los Angeles Riots and Best Live Coverage of a News Story: Los Angeles Floods.
She was also nominated for another Emmy for Best News Reporting.
National Broadcasting Company, LA, California-television hired Vandor to help create and launch The Local Story, Los Angeles’s first daily, live newscast produced exclusively for the Internet. October 20, 2006, she scored another first in electronic journalism by reporting the verdict live from inside the courtroom in the Santa Monica Farmer’s Market trial where no cameras were allowed. Cindy’s ground-breaking reporting was aired live on Microsoft and National Broadcasting Company, Consumer News and Business Channel, and on websites around the world.
Vandor was Program Executive for the syndicated series Strange Universe.
She was a Producer of the National Enquirer Television Show, responsible for script supervision and story content. Cindy launched, produced, and wrote iFilmIFC, a weekly magazine series for The Independent Film Channel produced by iFilm.com.
Recently, she wrote for the first season of The Animal Planet’s hit series Untamed and Uncut. Foreign commercial clients, Cindy produces events, videos, and promotions that go viral and get buzz.
She has produced and written web videos for McDonald"son
Foreign Mexico’s avocado growers, Cindy produced the making of the world’s largest guacamole, smashing a Guinness Book record and attracting worldwide media attention.
