Years active 2003–present Education Connecticut College | Role Journalist Name Christof Putzel | |
Born 1979 Washington, D.C. Occupation Journalist
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Christof putzel interviews scott smith on west virginia chemical leak
Christof Putzel is an award-winning journalist most recently with Al Jazeera America's news magazine America Tonight. He was formerly a correspondent for Vanguard, Current TV's investigative documentary series. His work has also been featured on ABC’s Nightline, Good Morning America, CNN, PBS, CBC, and the Sundance Channel.
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- Christof putzel interviews scott smith on west virginia chemical leak
- Dupont winners circle discussion with christof putzel and lauren cerre from current tv
- Career
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Dupont winners circle discussion with christof putzel and lauren cerre from current tv
Career
Christof began his production career while still an undergraduate at Connecticut College, where he produced his first documentary, "Left Behind," about AIDS orphans in Kenya. After screening at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival, the film won a Student Academy Award, a Student Emmy, the International Documentary Association’s David Wolper Award, and the HBO Films Best Student Film Award.
Christof joined Current TV in 2005 as one of the network’s first employees. The following year, he was the first American television journalist to report from Mogadishu, Somalia since the infamous Black Hawk Down incident in 1993. His resulting story, Mogadishu Madness, about the rise and fall of the Islamic Court Union, was nominated for an Emmy.
He has since trekked in the jungles of the Democratic Republic of Congo to cover the exploitation of child gold miners, made the treacherous journey through the desert to cross the Mexico/US border with migrants trying to reach American soil, and camped on the southern shores of Yemen, where he discovered the bodies of more than two-dozen refugees who drowned attempting to escape the violence in Somalia.
In 2009, Putzel won both the prestigious Livingston Award for International Reporting and Columbia University’s Alfred I. duPont Award for his report, “From Russia with Hate,” about the rise of violent attacks against immigrants in Moscow by neo-Nazi skinheads. The following year, Christof was nominated for his third Emmy for “Lost in Democracy,” a documentary about the first democratic elections held in the tiny Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan.
In 2012, "Sex, Lies, and Cigarettes," a documentary centered around Aldi, "the Indonesian smoking baby," went viral after exposing Philip Morris's marketing practices in the developing world. It won an Overseas Press Club Award, a PRISM Award, and was nominated for an Emmy.
In 2013, Christof was awarded his second duPont-Columbia Award for "Arming the Mexican Cartels," an investigation into the trafficking of guns into Mexico from the United States.
On June 17, 2013 it was announced that Putzel will be a correspondent for the upcoming news program America Tonight which will air on Al Jazeera America at 9:00 pm eastern time.
Personal life
Putzel is a third generation news reporter. His father, Michael Putzel, covered the Vietnam War and the White House for the Associated Press. His mother, Ann Blackman, was a correspondent for Time Magazine and a reporter for the Associated Press. His grandfather, Samuel G. Blackman, was a top editor for the Associated Press.
Christof was married to Julia Taft, a great-granddaughter of the late Robert A. Taft, Republican senator from Ohio, and a great-great-granddaughter of President and Chief Justice William Howard Taft. They divorced in 2013.