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2012 Annual Overseas Press Club Foundation Friday, February 17, 2012 Guest speaker: Jeff Fager 11:30 AM Reception Yale Club, Vanderbilt Ave., New York City Tables of 10:
Jeff Fager became the first chairman of CBS News in February 2011. In his new role, he continues to oversee 60 Minutes, while executing his plan to transfer that success to all of the news division's platforms, on television, radio and the Internet. For his work, the Producers Guild of America voted him best producer in non-fiction television four times and TV Week named him to its top 10 list of most powerful television news executives. Broadcasts that he executive produced garnered 33 Emmys, eight Peabodys, eight RTDNA/Edward R. Murrow Awards, four Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University batons, three Sigma Delta Chi Awards and three Investigative Reporting and Editing Awards. As the executive producer of the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather from 1996 to 1998, Fager led the broadcast's highly praised rededication to hard news, enterprise reporting and increased foreign coverage. As the senior broadcast producer for the CBS Evening News (1994-96) he covered many major international stories, including the war in Bosnia and the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. He began his career in Boston in 1977 at the CBS station WBZ-TV. He is a graduate of Colgate University.
Contact: Jane Reilly at foundation@opcofamerica.org
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