Jeff Glor Biography
Jeffrey Glor is an American journalist who works for CBS News as a special correspondent and co-host of CBS Saturday Morning. From 2017 to 2019, he was the anchor of the CBS Evening News.
Jeff Glor Age
Glor is 46 years old as of 12 July 2021. He was born Jeffrey Todd Glor on 12 July 1975 in Tonawanda, New York, United States.
Jeff Glor Height
Jeff stands at a height of 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m).
Jeff Glor Family
Richard, Glor’s brother, is the Curator of Herpetology at the Kansas University Biodiversity Institute and Museum of Natural History and is an expert on lizard evolution.
Jeff Glor Wife
Glor is married to Nicole (née Glab), a fitness instructor and former college cheerleader. The couple met at Syracuse University, they have two children: a son and a daughter.
Jeff Glor Education
Glor went to Kenmore East High School in Tonawanda, New York, which is a public high school. In 1997, he earned a bachelor’s degree in economics and a master’s degree in journalism from Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. He received the Henry J. Wolff prize at Syracuse, which is given to the Newhouse student who is “most proficient in journalism.”
Jeff Glor House
According to StreetEasy, Glor and his wife listed their Upper West Side co-op at 202 West 85th Street for $1.99 million.
Jeff Glor Salary
Glor earns an annual salary of $ 10.15.
Jeff Glor Net Worth
Glor has an estimated net worth of $3 million.
Jeff Glor Career
Glor joined the Network in 2007 and has covered stories across the country and around the world. He’s been in the midst of numerous hurricanes, including Michael, Florence, Irma, and Superstorm Sandy. Glor has covered mass shootings in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Thousand Oaks, California, Parkland, Florida, Sutherland Springs, Texas, Santa Fe, Texas, and Newtown, Connecticut, among other places. For years, he has covered wildfires all over California.
From December 2017 to June 2019, Glor served as the anchor of “CBS Evening News,” where he oversaw coverage of the 2018 midterm elections, the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Brett Kavanaugh, and two summits between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore and Vietnam. Glor was the only network evening news anchor to cover the opening of the new US embassy in Jerusalem from the Middle East. He traveled to the West Bank and found himself in the midst of a long-running conflict between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian demonstrators.
Following President Trump’s decision to withdraw the US from the 2015 Paris Accord, Glor interviewed French President Emmanuel Macron at the One Planet Summit in Paris in December 2017. That night, he broadcast live from the Élysée Palace the “CBS Evening News,” a first for any American network. Before and after the Helsinki summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in July 2018, he conducted a two-part interview with President Trump.
Glor had two conversations with Mr. Trump, one in Scotland and the other at the White House, which aired on all CBS News broadcasts and platforms. Mr. Trump did back-to-back interviews with the same network news anchor for the first time during Glor’s interview with him.
Glor brought back the iconic CBS News franchise “Eye on America” as anchor of the “CBS Evening News,” featuring immersive reports on national issues such as immigration, mass shootings, suicides, and church sex abuse scandals. His investigative work includes a multi-part report on problems with the National Flood Insurance Program, which won the 2018 SPJ award for network investigations. Glor reported from Alaska, Africa, Greenland, Ireland, and Newfoundland as a correspondent for “CBS This Morning” and “60 Minutes Sports.” From 2013 to 2015, Glor’s ongoing series of reports for the “CBS Evening News” on the GM and Takata recall crisis sent him across the United States in search of survivors, stories, and information that had been kept hidden from the public for years.
Following Haiti’s devastating earthquake in 2010, he was one of the first journalists on the scene. In 2007 and 2008, Glor reported from Iraq, where he spent time embedded with US troops. He also covered the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China, and the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada. Glor was part of the CBS News team that covered Pope Benedict XVI’s historic visits to Washington, D.C., and New York City in 2008. During the 2008 presidential election, he was also the Network’s morning show’s primary campaign correspondent.
Glor was a lead anchor on CBSN, CBS News’ 24/7 streaming news service, during its critical launch period, in addition to his reporting responsibilities. Glor hosted the “CBS Evening News” weekend editions on Saturday from 2009 to 2010 and Sunday from 2012 to 2016. In 2011, he became the host of “The Early Show.”
Glor worked for WHDH-TV Boston as a weekend evening news anchor and a weekday reporter before joining CBS News. He covered many national stories while there, including the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Pope John Paul II’s death in 2005 from Rome, and steroid use in Major League Baseball hearings from Washington, D.C. Prior to that, Glor worked as a reporter for the 11:00 PM newscast and co-anchor of WSTM-TV Syracuse’s 5:00 PM newscast (2000-2003), as well as the morning news anchor. The terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, the first anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, and the crash of Flight 587 in Queens, New York were among the national stories he covered while at WSTM. He also covered Pope John Paul II’s visit to Toronto in 2002, reporting live from the city.
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