Jeff Glor is an American broadcast journalist. He was named News Anchor of CBS News' The Early Show in November 2010. He was named Anchor of CBS Evening News on Sundays in 2012.
Prior to The Early Show, Glor served as anchor of the Saturday edition of the CBS Evening News and was a National Correspondent for all CBS News broadcasts. Previously, he was a national correspondent for The Early Show from April 2007 until February 2009.
In January 2010, Glor was one of the first journalists on the ground in Haiti following that country’s devastating earthquake. He has reported from Iraq, where he was embedded with U.S. soldiers and conducted a one-on-one interview with Gen. David Petraeus. Glor traveled to China in August 2008 to cover the Beijing Olympic Games and to Vancouver, Canada, in February 2010 to cover the Winter Games. In 2008, Glor was a lead member of the CBS News team that covered Pope Benedict XVI's historic visits to Washington, D.C., and New York City.
He also served as The Early Show's primary campaign correspondent during the 2008 presidential election. In July 2011, he was in Norway to cover the twin terror attacks in and near Oslo. In October 2011, he won an Emmy for his Sunday Morning report on the aging steel town of Braddock, PA.
Also at CBS, he created and produces the blog “Author Talk.” A video version was launched late in 2011.
Prior to joining CBS News, Glor served as the weekend evening news anchor and a weekday reporter for WHDH-TV Boston from 2003 through 2007. Before that, Glor was the co-anchor of WSTM-TV Syracuse's 5 p.m. newscast and a reporter for the 11 p.m. newscast (2000–03), as well as the morning news anchor (1997–2000). During that time, Glor's newscast rose to become the No. 1 morning program in the market. He began his journalism career in 1997 as a part-time writer at WSTM, while attending college.
In Central NY, Glor was named "Best Male News Anchor" by the Syracuse New Times and one of the 40 most promising professionals under the age of 40. He served as a contributing researcher and writer on "The Legal Handbook for N.Y. State Journalists."
Glor was born in Tonawanda, NY. He graduated magna cum laude from Syracuse University in 1997 with dual degrees in journalism, from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, and economics. At Syracuse, Glor was awarded the Henry J. Wolff prize, given to the Newhouse student "most proficient in journalism."
Glor and his wife Nicole live in New York with their son, Jack.