Steve Kroft

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Steve Kroft (born August 22, 1945 in Kokomo, Indiana ) is an American journalist and longtime correspondent for the news program 60 Minutes . His investigative reports have won three Peabody Awards and nine Emmys .

Life

Kroft attended Syracuse University , from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Science in 1967. After receiving his doctorate, he was drafted and served in the Vietnam War . As a reporter for the AFN in the 25th US Infantry Division , which was stationed in Củ Chi , he reported on the invasion of Cambodia . Kroft received several awards for his work, including the "Bronze Star Medal for Meritorius Achievement". He later worked as a correspondent and photographer for the "Stars and Stripes" .

Shortly after his discharge from the army in 1971, he began his career as a reporter for "WSYR-TV" in Syracuse, New York . In 1974 he enrolled at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism , where he received his Masters in 1975 . Upon graduation, Kroft moved to Florida and worked for two Washington Post Company broadcasters . His investigative reporting for "WJXT" in Jacksonville about local corruption led to several investigations by the grand jury . In 1977 he moved to the station "WPLG-TV" in Miami, where his work caught the attention of "CBS News".

Kroft lives in New York City with his wife Jennet Conant (journalist and author) and their son .

Career

Kroft joined CBS News in New York City in 1980 as a reporter. The following year he became a correspondent and moved to Dallas , where he stayed until 1983. Then he worked again in Miami. In the course of his work, he traveled regularly to the Caribbean and Latin America to report on the civil war in El Salvador and the US invasion of Grenada .

In 1984 Kroft was appointed to the CBS London office as a foreign correspondent . His reports took you across Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East . Many of his reports dealt with international terrorism and religiously motivated violence, such as the hijackings of TWA Flight 847 or the Achille Lauro . He wrote about the attacks on the airports in Rome and Vienna on December 27, 1985 by the Abu Nidal Organization , the Lebanese civil war and the violence in Northern Ireland . He won an Emmy for his report on the 1984 murder of Indira Gandhi . In 1986, Kroft came back to the United States and worked as chief correspondent for the magazine "West 57th" until it was discontinued in the spring of 1989.

In September 1989, Kroft and "Meredith Viera", who were colleagues at "West 57th", switched to the show 60 Minutes. In 1990, Kroft was the first American journalist to be granted full access to the contaminated Chernobyl nuclear power plant . He won an Emmy for his report on it. Following allegations of infidelity during the 1992 US presidential election , Governor Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary gave him an exclusive interview that is considered a key moment in this campaign.

He won his first Peabody Award for his report, published in 1992, about a “ friendly fire ” incident in the Second Gulf War . For his report on Senator Bob Dole and the synopsis about the Cuban government and its quarantine of AIDS- infected people from 1994, Kroft won an Emmy Award each. In 2003, he and the rest of the team on the show 60 Minutes received the Lifetime Achievement Emmy.

In 1993, in an episode of Murphy Brown , and in 2000 in Narrow Gauntlet, Kroft played himself.

Awards

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Biography , CBS
  2. ↑ a b c d Four to receive honorary degrees ( Memento of October 24, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), Inside Binghamton University
  3. ↑ a b Steve Kroft Biography , biography.com
  4. ↑ 60 Minutes to Receive 2003 Lifetime Achievement Award for News & Documentary , imdb.com
  5. ↑ Steve Kroft , IMDb
  6. ^ Small Time Crooks , Salon.com

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personal data
SURNAME Kroft, Steve
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and correspondent
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Kokomo, Indiana