Jeffrey Kofman

Jeffrey Kofman (born 1959 in Toronto), is a Canadian-born television journalist working in the United States since 1997.

He is a Miami-based correspondent for ABC News, covering Florida, Latin America and the Caribbean.

Kofman has reported from the frontlines on major stories near and far: he was broadcasting live from New Orleans as Hurricane Katrina hit and from the chaotic streets in the aftermath. He has reported from most of the countries of Latin America. He has interviewed the Presidents of Mexico, Colombia, Haiti and Bolivia. He has been to Iraq and back four times reporting from ABC's Baghdad Bureau and on embeds with the Marines and the Air Force. He was on the Navy's aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson during the Afghan War. He traveled in Blackhawk Helicopters with the Colombian army in to the coca fields of the Andes as the anti-narcotic police blew up cocaine labs. He traveled to the bottom of the sea in a medical research sub as scientists collected coral and sponges in search of new medicines. He reported from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, when the first US prisoners arrived.

Kofman arrived at ABC from CBS News, where he was a correspondent in the network's New York City bureau. At CBS, he reported for the CBS Evening News and Sunday Morning. Before joining CBS, Kofman was a correspondent for CBC Television in Toronto. During his 11 years at the CBC, he was also host of an award-winning weekly current affairs program, anchor of the CBC's Toronto newscast, a network radio host, and sub-anchor for the CBC's flagship nightly network newscast, The National.

He began his television career at the Global Television Network in 1982.

Education

Kofman graduated from Upper Canada College in Toronto and Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario where he studied political science. He speaks English and French.