Jeff Greenfield

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Jeff Greenfield
Born	June 10, 1943 (1943-06-10) (age 65)
Birth place	New York, NY, USA
Circumstances
Occupation	Television journalist
Children	Casey David
Notable credit(s)	CBS Evening News Correspondent (2007–present)
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Jeff Greenfield (born June 10, 1943) is an American television journalist, non-fiction writer, and novelist.

He was born in New York City to Jewish parents Benjamin and Helen. He grew up in Manhattan and graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1960. He obtained a B.A. degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1964, where he served as editor-in-chief of the Daily Cardinal. He graduated with an LLB degree from the Yale Law School in 1967, where he was a Note and Comment editor of the Yale Law Journal. He also served as a speechwriter for Senator Robert F. Kennedy.

Over the course of his career he has reported primarily on domestic politics and the media, as well as occasionally on culture. He appeared on the Firing Line television program in 1968. He served as media commentator for CBS News from 1979 to 1983 and as Political and Media Analyst for ABC News from 1983 to 1997, often appearing on the Nightline program. He served as a Senior Analyst at CNN from 1998 to 2007. On 1 May 2007, Greenfield returned to CBS News to serve as Senior Political Correspondent.^[1]

He has also written or contributed to eleven books, and written for Time Magazine, The New York Times, and Slate.com.

Greenfield is the recipient of three Emmy Awards, two for his reporting from South Africa (1985 and 1990) and one for a profile of H. Ross Perot (1992).

Greenfield lives in New York and Salisbury, Connecticut. He was married to Carrie Carmichael until their divorce in February 1993. They have one daughter, Casey, and one son, David. On April 24, 1993, he married Karen Gannett,^[2] from whom he is now divorced.

[edit] Books

(1973) No Peace, No Place: Excavations Along the Generational Fault. Doubleday. ISBN 978-0385019361.
(1977) Television: The First Fifty Years. Abrams. ISBN 978-0810916517.
(1980) Playing to Win: An Insider's Guide to Politics. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0671247621.
(1995) The People's Choice: A Novel. Putnam. ISBN 0452277051.
(2001) Oh, Waiter, One Order of Crow! Inside the Strangest Presidential Election Finish in American History. Putnam. ISBN 978-0399147760.