Wolf Blitzer Biography

Wolf Blitzer is an American journalist, television news anchor, and author working at CNN. He has been working for the station since joining in May 1990. 

Wolf Blitzer Education

Blitzer went to the State University of New York at Buffalo where he attained his bachelor of arts degree in history. He also went to the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. where he attained his master of arts degree in international relations. Blitzer is also the owner of several honorary degrees from educational institutions across the country, including the State University of New York at Buffalo; The George Washington University in Washington, D.C.; The Pennsylvania State University in State College, Pa; and Howard University in Washington, D.C.

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Blitzer serves as the anchor of The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer on the weekdays at 6pmET. In this role, he is in charge of providing in-depth reports about the international, political, and breaking news stories of the day. He also served as a moderator during the 2020 election cycle in several Democratic presidential town halls and CNN’s January debate in Iowa. In addition to that, he has also served as an anchor of Election Night in America surrounding the 2020 election. He served as the network’s anchor during the peak of the pandemic in 2020. Furthermore, he also served as a moderator during the 2016 CNN Republican Presidential Primary Debates in Houston, Texas, and Las Vegas, Nevada as well as the Democratic Presidential Primary Debate that took place in Brooklyn, New York.

Blitzer also served as the anchor of the inaugurations of Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. He also went to Cairo, Egypt in January 2013 and interviewed President Mohamed Morsy. Prior to that, he had gone to North Korea with former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson in December 2010. He also went to Israel and enclosed during the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah. In addition to that, he also went to the Middle East and reported on the 2005 second anniversary of the war in Iraq. He also made an exclusive report on the Persian Gulf region in 2003.

On joining CNN, he started off by serving as a  military-affairs correspondent at the Pentagon. He, later on, started serving as the network’s senior White House correspondent enclosing President Bill Clinton from the November 1992 election to 1999. After that role, he started serving as the anchor of the network’s Sunday public affairs program Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer. Blitzer also enclosed the first Israeli-Egyptian peace conference in Egypt which took place in 1977. In 1979, he went to Egypt and Israel alongside then-President Jimmy Carter for the final Israel-Egypt peace treaty.

In addition to that, he also interviewed well-known personalities including; Gerald Ford, George H.W. Bush, U.S. Presidents Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton. He also interviewed former South African President Nelson Mandela, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, the Dalai Lama, and former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.

Wolf Blitzer Career

Blitzer started his journalism career working at the Reuters News Agency in Tel Aviv in 1972. He, later on, started working at The Jerusalem Post where he served as a Washington, D.C., correspondent and also reported from the nation’s capital for about 15 years.

Wolf Blitzer Awards and Honors

Blitzer has also received several awards including the Sol Taishoff Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism in March 2014. The Radio & Television Digital News Foundation also awarded him the distinguished Leonard Zeidenberg First Amendment Award in 2011. He also received the Urbino Press Award in 2013 from the Italian Embassy for his excellence in journalism. He is also the recipient of The Panetta Institute for Public Policy’s Jefferson-Lincoln Award.

The Respect for Law Alliance awarded him the 2004 Journalist Pillar of Justice Award. He also received the  2003 Daniel Pearl Award from the Chicago Press Veterans Association. Blitzer was also awarded an Emmy Award for his 1996 coverage of the Oklahoma City bombing. He also won Golden CableACE for his and CNN’s coverage of the Persian Gulf War from the National Academy of Cable Programming.

Wolf Blitzer Age

Blitzer is 76 years old. She celebrates her birthday on 22 March 1948 in Augsburg, Germany. She celebrates her birthday on the 22nd of March every year.

Wolf Blitzer Height

Blitzer stands at a height of 5 feet 9 inches (175.3 cm).

Wolf Blitzer Family

Blitzer is the son of a homemaker named Cesia Blitzer (née Zylberfuden), and a house builder named David Blitzer. His parents were Polish Jewish immigrants from German-occupied Poland who had escaped the Auschwitz death camp; his grandparents, two uncles, and two aunts on his father’s side were all killed there.

Wolf Blitzer Wife

Blitzer lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with his partner, Lynn Greenfield. They have one daughter, born in 1981, Ilana Blitzer Gendelman. Blitzer is a fan of the NBA Washington Wizards team and the NFL Buffalo Bills team in his hometown.

Wolf Blitzer Net Worth

Blitzer has an estimated net worth of $20 Million which he has earned through being a television news anchor and author.

Is Wolf Blitzer Jewish?/Wolf Blitzer Ethnicity

Blitzer is of Jewish and Polish descent as his parents were Polish Jewish refugees from German-occupied Poland.

Wolf Blitzer Salary

Blitzer earns an annual salary of $5 Million.

Wolf Blitzer Real Name

Blitzer’s full names are Wolf Isaac Blitzer.

Wolf Blitzer Books

Blitzer is also the author of his two books called Territory of Lies (Harper and Row, 1989) and Between Washington and Jerusalem: A Reporter’s Notebook (Oxford University Press, 1985).

CNN

Blitzer works at CNN where he works alongside other famous CNN anchors, reporters, meteorologists, and sports anchors including;

1. Roland Martin
2. Sara Sidner
3. Dylan Byers
4. Katrina Pierson
5. Irin Carmon
6. Natasha Curry
7. Christi Paul
8. Bob Van Dillen
9. Reynolds Wolf
10. Kirsten Powers
11. Midwin Charles
12. Pamela Brown
13. Gloria Borger

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