Emmy award-winning journalist Jeff Glor has been with CBS News since 2007. Anchor of the Sunday edition of the “CBS Evening News,” he has also anchored the Saturday edition of the “CBS Evening News” and “The Early Show,” and files reports for “60 Minutes Sports.”
As a correspondent, Glor has traveled extensively to report on some of the biggest domestic and international stories of the past 15 years. He has covered the Boston Marathon bombings, the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, Hurricane Sandy’s landfall in New Jersey and the Aurora, Colorado movie theater shooting. Glor also reported live from Norway after the twin terror attacks in 2011. He was one of the first journalists on the ground in Haiti following that country’s devastating earthquake in 2010. He reported from Iraq in 2007, where he was embedded with the U.S. military. Glor also covered the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in China and the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver. In 2008, Glor was a lead member of the CBS News team that covered Pope Benedict XVI’s historic visits to Washington, D.C. and New York City. He was also the primary campaign correspondent for “The Early Show” during the 2008 presidential election.
Before joining CBS News, Glor was the weekend evening news anchor and a weekday reporter for WHDH-TV Boston. He began his journalism career at Syracuse’s WSTM-TV, and was named “Best Male News Anchor” by the Syracuse New Times.