13x Emmy Award-Winning Journalist, 60 Minutes
Lesley Stahl: Biography at a Glance
- Lesley Stahl is one of America’s most respected broadcast journalists and a longtime correspondent for 60 Minutes, whose decades of reporting have taken her inside the highest levels of government, business, and global affairs.
- A trailblazer in journalism, Stahl was the first woman to serve as CBS News White House Correspondent, covering four presidential administrations and some of the defining political moments of the late 20th century.
- Known for her incisive, revealing interviews, Stahl has sat across from presidents, CEOs, world leaders, and newsmakers including Donald Trump, Nancy Pelosi, Margaret Thatcher, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page, Jamie Dimon, and Reed Hastings.
- Drawing on a career spanning Watergate, presidential elections, wars, international conflicts, and groundbreaking investigations, Stahl offers audiences a firsthand perspective on how major events unfold and how journalism can hold powerful institutions accountable.
- A recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Emmy among 13 Emmy wins, Stahl brings unmatched experience, curiosity, and storytelling ability to conversations about journalism, leadership, politics, business, and the forces shaping the world today.
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Lesley Stahl is one of America's most honored and experienced broadcast journalists. Her rich career has been marked by political scoops, investigations, surprising features and award-winning foreign reporting, a body of work that won her the Lifetime Achievement Emmy for overall excellence in reporting.
She Joined 60 Minutes as a correspondent in March 1991. She is the author of two best-selling books: Reporting Live, about her work as a White House Correspondent, and Becoming Grandma.
Her work at 60 Minutes includes four interviews with Donald J. Trump. The fourth interview became well-known when Donald Trump walked out early. Nancy Pelosi gave Stahl her first TV interview as Speaker of the House in 2007 and again, when she returned as Speaker, in 2019.
Stahl's revealing interview with the new Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos was the subject of headlines and political talk shows. She earned an Emmy for a shocking report on how some police recruit vulnerable young people for dangerous jobs as confidential informants. She won her 13th Emmy for her interview with the widow of a slain hostage that offered a rare look inside the technically illegal process of negotiating with terrorists.
Stahl gained unprecedented access to the U.S.'s Guantanamo Bay prison facilities for a two-part series honored with an Edward R. Murrow award. She won two Emmys, one for the Guantanamo series and another for an eye-opening story about China's huge real estate bubble. Later, she was honored by the International Center For Journalists with its Founders Award for Journalistic Excellence.
Her whistleblower interview with F-22 Raptor pilots provided the first public personal accounts of the fighter's oxygen system troubles, spurring the Secretary of Defense to take action. Stahl's interview of a former CIA Clandestine Services chief about the use of "enhanced interrogation techniques" on al Qaeda operatives sparked a national debate.
These are just a few examples of the breadth and variety of stories she has covered.
Stahl has an impressive portfolio of interviews with CEOs, featuring Larry Page of Google, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase, Susan Wojcicki of YouTube, Beth Ford of Land O'Lakes and Reed Hastings of Netflix, among others.
Prior to joining 60 Minutes, Stahl served as CBS News White House correspondent – the first woman to hold that job – during the Carter and 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. For Face The Nation, she interviewed such newsmakers as Margaret Thatcher, Boris Yeltsin, Yasser Arafat and virtually every top U.S. official, including George H. W. Bush and Vice President Dan Quayle.
Her experiences covering Washington for more than 20 years became the subject of her book Reporting Live. In it she recalls covering Watergate – from the break-in in 1972 to the Impeachment hearings of President Nixon in 1974 – as well as the 1981 assassination attempt on President Reagan, and the 1991 Gulf War. She reported on the U.S.-Russian summit meetings and the economic summits of the industrialized countries, as well as the national political conventions and election nights, throughout her career.
Stahl was born in Swampscott, Massachusetts. She graduated cum laude in 1963 from Wheaton College, where she later served on the board of trustees. She currently serves on the board of the New York City Ballet.
She and her husband, author Aaron Latham, live in New York. They have a daughter, Taylor Latham, and two granddaughters. Jordan and Chloe, the subjects of her book, Becoming Grandma: the Joy and Science of the New Grandparenting.
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An Evening With Lesley Stahl
One of America's most recognized and experienced broadcast journalists, Lesley Stahl offers a historical look at politics and world affairs from a career that has spanned over fifty years. Stahl was a CBS White House correspondent in the Carter, Reagan and Bush Senior administrations - the first woman to hold that job - and her reports appeared frequently on the CBS Evening News, first with Walter Cronkite, then with Dan Rather, and on other CBS News broadcasts. Stahl continues to bring her unique perspective to viewers all over the world as a 60 Minutes correspondent, a position she has held since March 1991. With topics ranging from her extraordinary career to her perspective on current affairs, Lesley Stahl discusses today’s hot topics with eloquence and a wealth of expertise.
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