Wolf Blitzer

Wolf Blitzer ( born March 22, 1948 in Augsburg, Germany ) is an American journalist and television presenter. Blitzer was known primarily for his work as host of several programs of the U.S. news channel CNN as Wolf Blitzer Reports, Late Edition and The Situation Room as well as a moderator of presidential debates shared by CNN and the Internet platform YouTube.

Life and work

Blitzer grew up as the son of Jewish refugees from Poland to the U.S. state of New York, where he attended Kenmore West Senior High School and in 1970 left the University of Buffalo with a BA in history. After further study at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in 1972, he earned a Masters degree in International Relations.

His career as a journalist began Blitzer in 1972, in Tel Aviv office told Reuters before he went in 1973 as a correspondent for the Israeli newspaper Jerusalem Post to Washington. As a result, he reported until 1990 as a journalist for the Jerusalem Post about the political events in the United States and the Middle East. In his seventeen years at the Post reported Blitzer, among other things about the Israeli- Egyptian peace treaty of 1977, the war in Lebanon in 1983 and the Jonathan Pollard affair, about 1989 he wrote a book ( Territory of Lies ), which The New York Times was selected in the list of " most worth reading books" of the year. In addition, during this period led Blitzer interviews with all four U.S. presidents and numerous American Ministers and State Secretaries.

In 1990, Blitzer commitment to the news channel CNN. There he first reported as a foreign correspondent from Moscow and Iraq - during the second Gulf War in 1991, before 1992 the post of CNN correspondent at the White House took over, which he held until 1999. As of 1998, Blitzer increasingly " studio jobs" as an interviewer and as a host and anchorman of political information and discussion programs true: he presented the program Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer, which was broadcast in over 180 countries. More shows, which he presented, were The World Today (1999) and The Wolf Blitzer Reports ( 2000).

2004 Blitzer acted as the main presenter of CNN 's coverage of the U.S. presidential elections before 2005 took over the role of host for the newscast The Situation Room.

For his work Blitzer, among others, the Emmy Award (1996 for his coverage of the terrorist attacks in Oklahoma City ), the George Foster Peabody Award ( for his coverage of the Hurricane Katrina disaster ) and the Journalist Pillar of Justice Award ( 2004, ) and the Daniel Pearl Award from the Chicago Press veterans Association of excellent.

Blitzer is married since 1973 and has one daughter.

Works

• Between Washington and Jerusalem: A Reporter 's Notebook, 1985.