Greta Van Susteren
American commentator, television personality, and lawyer
Lesley Stahl is an acclaimed American television journalist who has spent most of her career with CBS News. She is known for her award-winning news reporting, television investigations, and foreign coverage. Stahl has held prestigious roles, including serving as the first woman White House correspondent and as a moderator for the CBS News program Face the Nation.
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About the Lesley Stahl
Lesley Rene Stahlis an American television journalist. She has spent most of her career with CBS News, where she began as a producer in 1971. Since 1991, she has reported for CBS’s 60 Minutes. She is known for her news and television investigations and award-winning foreign reporting. For her body of work she has earned various journalism awards including a Lifetime Achievement News and Documentary Emmy Award in 2003 for overall excellence in reporting.
Prior to joining 60 Minutes, Stahl served as CBS News White House correspondent – the first woman to hold that job – during the Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan presidencies and part of the term of George H. W. Bush. Her reports appeared frequently on the CBS Evening News, first with Walter Cronkite then with Dan Rather and on other CBS News broadcasts. During much of that time, she also served as moderator of Face the Nation, CBS News’ Sunday public affairs broadcast from September 1983 to May 1991. As a moderator on Face the Nation, she interviewed world leaders, including Margaret Thatcher, Boris Yeltsin and Yasser Arafat. From 1990 to 1991, she was co-host with Charles Kuralt of America Tonight, a daily CBS News late-night broadcast of interviews and essays.
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Lesley Rene Stahl is an American television journalist who has spent most of her career with CBS News, where she began as a producer in 1971. Since 1991, she has reported for CBS’s 60 Minutes.
For her body of work, Lesley Stahl has earned various journalism awards, including a Lifetime Achievement News and Documentary Emmy Award in 2003 for overall excellence in reporting.
Prior to joining 60 Minutes, Lesley Stahl served as CBS News White House correspondent during the Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush presidencies. She also served as moderator of Face the Nation, CBS News’ Sunday public affairs broadcast, from 1983 to 1991.
Lesley Stahl is known for her award-winning foreign reporting, in addition to her news and television investigations.
Lesley Stahl’s reports have appeared frequently on the CBS Evening News, first with Walter Cronkite and then with Dan Rather, as well as on other CBS News broadcasts. She was also co-host with Charles Kuralt of America Tonight, a daily CBS News late-night broadcast of interviews and essays, from 1990 to 1991.
3 Quotes by Lesley Stahl
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I can’t tell people what flag to fly.
Lesley StahlAmerican journalist
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I don’t know of anybody’s political bias at CBS News. We try very hard to get any opinion that we have out of our stories, and most of our stories are balanced.
Lesley StahlAmerican journalist
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I thought administration was the running of the office. The Xerox machine. Paying bills.
Lesley StahlAmerican journalist