Wolf Blitzer

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Wolf Blitzer is the lead political anchor for CNN; he formerly was their White House correspondent, and began as their senior military affairs reporter in 1990.^[1] Blitzer was born in Germany but grew up in Buffalo, New York and attended the University of Buffalo, according to its alumni newsletter. ^[2]

He began reporting with Reuters in 1972, based in Tel Aviv, and then spent 15 years as the Washington, D.C. correspondent for the Jerusalem Post.

Awards[edit]

Individual[edit]

• 1996 Emmy Award from The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for coverage of the Oklahoma City bombing
• Golden CableACE from the National Academy of Cable Programming for his and CNN's coverage of the Gulf War
• 2004 Journalist Pillar of Justice Award from the Respect for Law Alliance
• 2003 Daniel Pearl Award from the Chicago Press Veterans Association
• 2002, Ernie Pyle Journalism Award for excellence in military reporting,
• 2000, Anti-Defamation League's Hubert H. Humphrey First Amendment Freedoms Prize
• 1999,International Platform Association's Lowell Thomas Broadcast Journalism Award for outstanding contributions to broadcast journalism.

Team[edit]

• Anchor for CNN's Emmy-award winning live coverage of the 2006 Election Day.
• George Foster Peabody award for Hurricane Katrina coverage
• Alfred I. duPont Award for coverage of the tsunami disaster in Southeast Asia
• Edward R. Murrow Award for CNN's coverage of 9/11
• 1994, American Journalism Review cited him and CNN as the overwhelming choice of readers for the coveted Best in the Business Award for "best network coverage of the Clinton administration."

Critics[edit]

That's why the department store dummy named Wolf Blitzer, a Jew who was born in Israel, will do the astonishing act of being the type that would stick Jewish children into a gas chamber to stay alive another day. He's probably the most despicable man in the media next to Larry King, who takes a close runner-up by the hair of a nose. The two of them together look like the type that would have pushed Jewish children into the oven to stay alive one more day to entertain the Nazis.^[3]

Education[edit]

• B.A., history from the State University of New York at Buffalo
• M.A., international relations from the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

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