Jeff Pegues Biography

Jeff Pegues is a Washington, D.C.-based CBS News chief justice and homeland security correspondent. In July 2013, he joined CBS News and now reports for all CBS News broadcasts and platforms, including “CBS This Morning” and “CBS Evening News.”

Jeff Pegues Age

Pegues is 52 yeas old as of 2022. He was born in 1970 in Washington, D.C., United States.

Jeff Pegues Height

Pegues stands at a height of 5 feet 4 inches (1.62m.)

Jeff Pegues Family

Pegues has not shared any information regarding his loving parents as of now, 2022. Nonetheless, we will update the site as soon as we get more intel from our trusted sources of information as soon as possible.

Jeff Pegues Wife

Pegues is married to Tareaz Pegues, a former Pegues Branding Group Sales Growth and Client Engagement Consultant.

Jeff Pegues Education

Pegues is a Miami University of Ohio graduate, where he was a scholarship football player and a starting wide receiver in the early 1990s. He was appointed to the Miami University Board of Trustees in January 2020. Pegues attended Westport High School in Connecticut, where he was an All-State sprinter and an All-Conference football running back. Pegues lived in France, Zimbabwe, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Zaire, and the Philippines before relocating to Connecticut.

Jeff Pegues Salary

Pegues receives an estimated annual salary ranging between $100 – $110 thousand.

Jeff Pegues Net Worth

Pegues has also not declared his net worth to the public as of now. Nonetheless, there is no doubt that he has been able to accumulate a good figure in terms of his net worth throughout his career in the film industry. However, we will update the site as soon as we get more information on the same.

Jeff Pegues Book

Pegues has written a book about the dispute between the black community and the police, “Black and Blue: Inside the Divide Between Police and the Black Community,” which includes recent police actions and Justice Department investigations in Baltimore and Ferguson.

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Jeff Pegues Career

Pegues has spearheaded CBS News’ coverage of some of the most important stories of the last decade since joining the network. Pegues has also established himself as one of the leading journalists covering the probe into Russian election meddling in 2016. “Kompromat: How Russia Undermined American Democracy,” his most recent book, examines how Russian President Vladimir Putin’s hackers gained access to voter lists in the United States and what is being done now to protect election systems in states around the country.

Pegues has three Emmy Awards, multiple local and national Emmy Award nominations, the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi Award, and was a member of the CBS News team that won an Edward R. Murrow Award in 2017.

Pegues has covered presidential elections, natural catastrophes such as Hurricane Sandy, active shooter incidents, and terrorist assaults for more than two decades. Pegues worked at WABC-TV in New York for over ten years before joining CBS News. Pegues previously worked at WBAL in Baltimore as a weekday anchor and reporter. In the late 1990s, he also hosted the top-rated evening newscasts at WSVN in Miami.

Pegues has three Emmy Awards to his name. He was honored by the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) with the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Excellence in Journalism in 2013. In May 2019, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Miami University.

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