PERSON: Jeff Glor

Journalist, correspondent

Jeffrey T. "Jeff" Glor (born July 12, 1975) is an American journalist. He presents the Sunday edition of "CBS Evening News" and is a special correspondent for "CBS This Morning."

Since joining CBS News in 2007, Glor has reported from Haiti, following that country’s devastating earthquake; Iraq, where he was embedded with U.S. soldiers; Norway, in the aftermath of the 2011 terror attacks in and near Oslo; China, for the 2008 Olympic Games; and Vancouver, for the 2010 Winter Games. The stories he has covered domestically include the theater shooting in Aurora, Col.; the crash of Colgan Air Flight 3407 in Buffalo; the Gulf oil spill; the 2009 mass shooting in Binghamton; US Airways Flight 1549's landing in the Hudson; the Pope’s visit to New York and Washington, D.C.; and the death of Sen. Edward Kennedy. He was The Early Show’s primary campaign correspondent in 2008, and he drove cross-country for CBS’s “Eye on the Road” series. In 2011, he won his first national Emmy award for a CBS Sunday Morning report on the aging steel town of Braddock, Pennsylvania.

An avid reader and supporter of new writers, Glor created and produces the blog "Author Talk." A video version was launched late in 2011.

Before joining CBS News, Glor was the weekend evening news presenter and a weekday reporter for WHDH-TV in Boston from 2003 to 2007. Before that, he was co-anchor of WSTM-TV Syracuse's 5 p.m. newscast and a reporter for the 11 p.m. newscast (2000–03). He was the morning news anchor from 1997-2000. He joined WSTM as a part-time producer while still attending college. His first internship was at CNN in 1996.

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