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Born March 6, 1947 (age 79) • Chicago Heights • Illinois
Awards And Honors Emmy Award
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Elizabeth Vargas
American television journalist
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Harry Reasoner
American broadcast journalist
Bill O'Reilly
Bill O’Reilly
American television and radio personality
Andy Rooney
Andy Rooney
American journalist and essayist
Ted Koppel
Ted Koppel
American journalist and news broadcaster
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Barbara Walters
American journalist
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Katie Couric
American broadcaster
Journalist Jorge Ramos at the 2019 Vanity Fair International Journalism Awards in Madrid.
Jorge Ramos
Mexican-American journalist and author
Charles Kuralt
Charles Kuralt
American journalist
Mike Wallace, wearing a striped shirt and tie, sits holding glasses and papers, smiling in front of a bookshelf filled with books.
Mike Wallace
American television interviewer and reporter
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H. V. Kaltenborn
American journalist and radio pioneer
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Howard K. Smith
American journalist and broadcaster
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Chet Huntley
American journalist
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Savannah Guthrie
American journalist, television host, and lawyer
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Walter Cronkite
American journalist
Explaining the red and the blue
Steve Kornacki
American journalist
Dan Rather
Dan Rather
American newscaster
A smiling Kaitlan Collins
Kaitlan Collins
American journalist
Geraldo Rivera wearing a navy suit, yellow tie, and red-tinted glasses, standing in front of an NBC logo backdrop.
Geraldo Rivera
American journalist and television personality
Keith Olbermann
Keith Olbermann
American journalist and political commentator