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Wolf Blitzer
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Wolf Blitzer (born
March 22,
1948) is an
American journalist and author. He has been a
CNN reporter since 1990, and is known for his straightforward "hard news" reporting style. Blitzer is currently the host of the newscast
The Situation Room and the Sunday talk show
Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer. Blitzer previously hosted
Wolf Blitzer Reports, which was replaced by
The Situation Room.
Blitzer, whose first name was his maternal grandfather's name,
[Sheridan, Patricia (3 October 2005). "[http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05276/581641.stm "Breakfast with..."]. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved 6 December 2005.
] grew up in
Buffalo, New York, the son of
Jewish Holocaust refugees from
Poland. He received a
Bachelor of Arts in
Bachelor of Arts in
history_from the
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York|University at Buffalo in 1970 and an
Master_of_Arts_%28postgraduate%29 in international relations from the
Master_of_Arts_%28postgraduate%29 in international relations from the
Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins SAIS in 1972. While studying at SUNY Buffalo Wolf was a brother of
Johns Hopkins SAIS in 1972. While studying at SUNY Buffalo Wolf was a brother of
Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity, as was former CNN coworker
Robert Novak.
His career in journalism began in 1972, in the
Tel Aviv bureau of the
Reuters news agency. He soon moved to
Washington, D.C., where he was
White House correspondent for
The Jerusalem Post after a spell working for
AIPAC. In 1990 he was hired by CNN as a military affairs reporter. His team's coverage of the first
Gulf War in
Kuwait won a
CableACE Award and made him a household name. He became CNN's White House correspondent and later co-anchored the daily show
The World Today. His coverage of the 1995
Oklahoma City bombing earned him an
Emmy Award. In 2000, he began hosting the CNN interview programs
Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer, and
Wolf Blitzer Reports.
Blitzer has regularly been criticized by some obsevers for his unabashadely pro-Israel worldview.
Blitzer is the author of two books:
Between Washington and Jerusalem: A Reporter's Notebook (Oxford University Press, 1985) and
Territory of Lies (Harper and Row, 1989). He has written under the
aliases Ze'ev Blitzer and Ze'ev Barak. "Ze'ev" meaning "wolf" and "barak" being "lightning" in
Hebrew.
Footnotes
External links
- CNN Programs - Anchors/Reporters - Wolf Blitzer
- Who's afraid of big bad Wolf? The Hill, September 7, 2005
- Video clip of "So poor" commentCategory:1948 births
Category:American journalists
Category:Living people
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