Al Jaffe
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Al Jaffe is ESPN's executive vice-president of talent (official title: Vice-President of Talent Negotiation and Production Recruitment), a position he has held since 1996. He is also one of the judges on the network's reality series Dream Job.
A native of Pittsfield, Massachusetts and a 1968 graduate of Emerson College, where he majored in Mass Communications, Jaffe previously served as news director at WHDH-TV and WCVB-TV in Boston, KNTV-TV San Jose, California, and KOVR-TV in Sacramento.
[edit] Trivia
- While attending Emerson College, Al Jaffe was in a fraternity (Alpha Pi Theta) along with actor Henry Winkler and Ray Hershel who is a news reporter for WGGB-TV in Springfield, MA
[edit] Awards and honors
- 1978 - Emmy Award, Boston Chapter of National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Best Newscast (WCVB-TV)
- 1986 - Radio Television News Directors Association Award, Regional Investigative Reporting
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