Dan Raviv

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Dan Raviv (born 1954) is an American journalist. He is a national correspondent for CBS News, heard regularly on the CBS Radio Network. He has also done TV reports from Washington, D.C. on the CBS Evening News.

Raviv is host of a weekly radio magazine show -- the CBS News Weekend Roundup, which is easily found at CBSnews.com or among the podcasts at iTunes.

A Great Neck, New York native and graduate of Harvard, Raviv joined CBS at its all-news radio station in Boston (WEEI) in 1974, moving to WCBS Newsradio in New York in 1976, then to the network radio newsdesk in New York. The start of his on-air career was his assignment in the Tel Aviv bureau, from 1978 to 1980, followed by twelve years as radio correspondent in the London bureau. There, he began making occasional appearances on CBS TV. He worked in the Miami bureau from 1993 to 1997, and then was named National Correspondent in the radio unit at CBS News in Washington.

He is also the author of several books, including the 1990 best seller Every Spy a Prince: The Complete History of Israel's Intelligence Community and Friends In Deed: Inside the U.S.-Israel Alliance, both co-authored with journalist Yossi Melman, and Comic Wars: How Two Tycoons Battled Over the Marvel Comics Empire -- and Both Lost.

Raviv is married, with two children.