Name Jeff Fager Role Producer | ||
Awards News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Interview Nominations News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Arts and Culture Programming Similar People Lara Logan, David Rhodes, Bob Simon, Scott Pelley, Don Hewitt Profiles | ||
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Jeff Fager (born December 10, 1954) is the former Chairman of CBS News and the current Executive Producer of 60 Minutes, the hour-long CBS news magazine created in 1968.
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Biography
Fager was born to an Episcopalian family, the son of Margaret (nee Bulkley) and Dr. Charles A. Fager. He graduated from Colgate University in 1977. As a teen, he spent some of his years in the Town of Wellesley and graduated from Wellesley High School in the class of 1973. He began his career in broadcast news in Boston and joined CBS News in 1982 from San Francisco, California station, KPIX-TV, where he was a broadcast producer.
Fager then became an Executive Producer of The CBS Evening News and held senior and field producer positions for that broadcast and other CBS News entities, including 60 Minutes; he soon became an Executive Producer of 60 Minutes II. In June 2004, he assumed the position of Executive Producer of 60 Minutes.
In February 2011, it was announced that Jeff Fager would lead the news division of CBS as Chairman of CBS News, a newly created position. In tandem with the newly appointed president David Rhodes, Fager would head CBS News while continuing to executive produce 60 Minutes.
Since stepping in as Chairman of CBS News, Fager has vowed to "restore CBS News to where it should be, where it needs to be," using the original reporting and storytelling of 60 Minutes as a benchmark for its other flagship news programs.
On January 1, 2015, Fager stepped down as Chairman but continued in his executive producer role. David Rhodes continues to serve as President of the CBS News Division.
Personal life
Fager is married to Melinda Wooster; they live in New Canaan, Connecticut with their three children.