Wolf Blitzer (born March 22, 1948) is an American journalist and author. He has been a CNN reporter since 1990, and is known for his straightforward "hard news" reporting style. Blitzer is currently the host of the newscast The Situation Room and the Sunday talk show Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer. Blitzer previously hosted Wolf Blitzer Reports, which was replaced by The Situation Room.
Blitzer, whose first name was his maternal grandfather's name, [1] grew up in Buffalo, New York, the son of Jewish Holocaust refugees from Poland. He received a B.A. degree in history from State University of New York at Buffalo in 1970 and an M.A. degree in international relations from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in 1972.
His career in journalism began in 1972, in the Tel Aviv bureau of the Reuters news agency. He soon moved to Washington, D.C., where he was White House correspondent for The Jerusalem Post after a spell working for AIPAC. In 1990 he was hired by CNN as a military-affairs reporter. His team's coverage of the first Gulf War in Kuwait won a CableACE Award and made him a household name. He became CNN's White House correspondent and later co-anchored the daily show The World Today. His coverage of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing earned him an Emmy Award.
Thanks for sending Wolf's CV. At this time however, I am only hiring smiling, blue eyed blondes with JD degrees..(sigh)