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Lesley Stahl (2008)

Lesley R. Stahl (born December 16, 1941 in Lynn, Massachusetts ) is an American TV journalist . She has been with the CBS news show 60 Minutes since 1991 .

Life

Career

Immediately after graduating from Wheaton College , Stahl began her career reporting the Watergate affair . She worked for CBS as a White House correspondent during the US presidencies of Jimmy Carter , Ronald Reagan and George HW Bush . Stahl was the host of Face the Nation from September 1983 to May 1991 and from 2002 to 2004. She also hosted 48 Hours .

In 2002, Stahl indirectly hit the headlines when Al Gore announced on its 60-Minutes program that it would not run for president again in 2004. In October 2007, Nicolas Sarkozy broke off an interview with Stahl because she had insisted on asking him about his marital problems.

As Katie Couric 2006 by CBS News for an annual salary of 15 million dollars US has been set, steel was "asked" to $ 500,000 of its 1.8-million-US-dollar salary to do without. She did not comply with her employer's request.

Private

In 1977 Stahl married the journalist Aaron Latham . They live together in New York City . When her apartment was broken into in January 2008, more than $ 100,000 worth of jewels and electronic devices disappeared.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sarkozy L'Americain (Sarkozy The American), 60 Minutes, CBS, October 28, 2007
  2. ↑ a b Which TV Stars Earns What? ( Memento of June 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), July 26, 2007
  3. ^ Katie Couric Learns What Happens When Great Expectations Go Unmet , New York Magazine
  4. ↑ 60 MINS. ROBBERY, STEEL PENTHOUSE IS HIT FOR 100G ( Memento of 22 April 2008 in the Internet Archive ) in February, the New York Post, 1st 2008
personal data
SURNAME Steel, Lesley
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stahl, Lesley R.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American television journalist
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Lynn (Massachusetts)