Steve Kroft Biography
Steve Kroft (Stephen F. Kroft) an American journalist known as a long time journalist for 60 Minutes. His investigative reporting has earned him acclaim that includes three Peabody Awards and nine Emmy awards, one of which was an Emmy for Lifetime Achievement.
Steve Kroft Age
Stephen was born on August 22nd, 1945 in Kokomo, Indiana, in the United States.
Steve Kroft CBS News
Stephen linked up with CBS News in 1980 as a reporter in its Northeast bureau, based out of New York City. The next year he was named a journalist and the network soon moved him to its Southwest Bureau in Dallas, where he stayed until 1983. That year, he returned to Florida after CBS reassigned him to its Miami bureau. He was soon making regular visits to the Caribbean and Latin America, covering the civil war in El Salvador and the U.S. invasion of Grenada.
Stephen got a job as a foreign journalist at the CBS London bureau in 1984, where he traveled extensively to cover stories in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Many of his roles involved international terrorism and sectarian violence, including the hijackings of TWA Flight 847 and Achille Lauro, the Rome and Vienna airport attacks of the Abu Nidal Organizations, the Lebanese Civil War, and the violence in Northern Oreland.
His report for the CBS Evening News on the assassination of Indira Gandhi won him an Emmy. In 1986, CBS News brought Stephen back to the U.S. to become a principal journalist on a news magazine show known as the West 57th. He stayed in that position until the program was canceled in the spring of 1989.
That September, Stephen and Meredith Vieira, a West 57th colleague, linked with 60 Minutes. In 1990, he became the first American journalist to be given extensive access to the contaminated grounds of the Chernobyl nuclear facility, and his story won an Emmy. After accusations of infidelity surfaced in the 1992 presidential election, then-Governor Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary, gave an interview to Stephen. The interview was one of the defining moments in the election.
Stephen continued to file groundbreaking reports for 60 Minutes. A 1992 segment that detailed a friendly fire incident in the Gulf War won him his first Peabody Award. Two of Stephen’s stories in 1994, a profile of Senator Bob Dole and an expose on the Cuban government’s quarantine policy for people infected with AIDS, won Emmy Awards. In 2003, he and the rest of the 60 Minutes team were awarded Emmys for lifetime achievement.
Stephen asked Clint Eastwood how many kids he has while interviewing the highly secretive actor in 1997. When Clint responded ”I have a few”, Stephen broached the subject with a declarative question. ”seven children with five wives, right?” actually a conservative estimate, but at the time an unprecedented statement. Clint did not answer and stared at Steve in silence for 30 seconds. In May 2019, The Hollywood Reporter disclosed Steve will retire from 6o Minutes on May 19th, 2019, his 30th season on the show.
Steve Kroft Net Worth
Stephen has an estimated Net Worth of between $1 – 5 million
Steve Kroft Presidential Interviews
Steve has been corrected by Gallup.com on the public opinion he cited while interviewing U.S. President Obama on December 23th, 2009. He stated in the interview that ”Most Americans right now don’t believe this war’s worth fighting”. He then questioned President Obama, about why he was conducting the war without public support. Gallup Editor in Chief Frank Newport challenged his statement and presented data, that indicated that Americans were split on the War in Afghanistan.
In March 2009, Steve asked Obama, who was laughing while discussing the recession, ”Are you punch drunk?” Regarding the interview of Obama and Hillary Clinton on January 27th, 2013, Conor Friedersdorf of The Atlantic argues that Steve’s softball interview technique diminishes 60 minutes. Peggy Nooman, in a column, titled ” So God Made a Fawner” in The Wall Street Journal, says that Steve’s interview was as ”soft as a sneaker full of puppy excrement.”
Steve Kroft Height and Weight
Stephen stands tall at an average height and has an average body weight
Steve Kroft Education
Stephen joined Syracuse University, where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in 1967. At Syracuse, he was outlined in the United States Army and worked in the Vietnam War. He got allocated to the 25th, Infantry Division in Cu Chi, where he was a reporter for the Armed Forces Network; he covered the Division’s participation in the invasion of Cambodia.
He won a number of Army journalism awards for his work and a Bronze Star for Meritorious Achievement. When the Division was reduced, he ressigned to the military newspaper Stars and Stripes as a journalist and photographer. After earning an honorable discharge from the army in 1971, he started his broadcast journalism career as a reporter for WSYR-TV in Syracuse, New York.
He resumed his academics in 1974, enrolling at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and graduating with mater’s degree in 1975. He later relocated to Florida, where he worked for two stations owned by the Washington Post Company. As an investigative reporter for WJXT in Jacksonville, his reports on local corruption led to various grand jury investigations and established his reputation. In 1997 he moved to WPLG-TV in Miami, where his work came to the attention of CBS News.
Steve Kroft Family
Kroft information about his family is publicly unavailable. We will update this section as soon as this information is available.
Steve Kroft Wife
Stephen is married to Jannet Conant, who is a journalist and write and they resides in New York City . They pair have one son named Jon Conant Kroft.