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Wolf Blitzer Wiki Biography

Wolf Blitzer was born on 22^nd March, 1948 and is one of the famous journalists and an anchor for television news. He has a net worth of $20 million dollars. Born in Germany, Blitzer’s parents were Holocaust survivors. Wolf Isaac Blitzer completed his graduation from the famous West Senior High School in Kenmore and completed his Bachelors of Arts with majors in History from Buffalo University in the year 1970. Blitzer completed his International relations M.A. from John Hopkins University School.

After completing his studies, he swung into action and started working as a journalist with news agency affiliated to Reuters. While working as a journalist his work was highly appreciated by his seniors. The Jerusalem Post editor Mr. Ari Rath also came to know about Blitzer’s work and he hired him for the post of Washington correspondent for an Israeli newspaper published in English language. He covered Jonathan Pollard’s arrest and trail in the year 1986. Jonathan was caught because he was an American Jew and was arrested for spying charges for Israel. He became the first journalist who interviewed Jonathan and later, Blitzer wrote the famous book called as “Territory of Lies”, which was related to Pollard affair.

Blitzer has been asked about his name several times by different people. They asked his that his name sounds like as it is made-for-TV. He replied by saying that his first name ‘Wolf’ is derived from his maternal grandfather.

It was in the year 1990 when Blitzer got a chance to work with CNN. He won several accolades while working with CNN and the biggest that he got was cableACE Award in the year 1991. He got this award for his team’s excellent coverage related to 1^st Gulf War that happened in Kuwait. He worked as CNN’s correspondent and covered White House from 1992 to 1999 and during this same period he got the world famous Emmy Award in the year 1995 for coverage of City Bombing in Oklahoma.

Blitzer covered the 2004, 2008 and the 2012 election for the President. In 2004, Blitzer won the famous Journalist Pillar of Justice Award. Apart from these awards, his team members also won several awards and accolades such as DuPont award for covering the Southeast Asian Tsunami in the year 1999, Edward R. Murrow Award for covering 9/11 terror attacks.

In 2009, Blitzer appeared as himself in a documentary named “Back Door Channels: The price of Peace”. After this appearance, he worked in numerous films and TV shows. He is an avid fan of the Washington Wizards NBA franchise and participates in a pre-game video. He even appeared for an episode of Celebrity Jeopardy in the year 2009 on 17^th September and finished the round with $4,600.

He started anchoring the 1 pm ET hour of CNN Newsroom in 2013 and worked till 2014 when the slot was given a new name ‘Wolf’.

Blitzer is married to Lynn Greenfield and both of them are living in Bethesda, Maryland. They have one daughter, Ilana Blitzer Gendelman, born in 1981.

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Wolf Blitzer Important Facts

• $3,000,000 /year (2009)
• Does not like to eat octopus and squid.
• Father of a daughter.
• He was born in Augsburg, Germany, to Polish Jewish parents, Cesia (Zylberfuden) and David Blitzer.
• Alumni of the State University of New York at Buffalo (UB).
• Was offered the chance to play himself in Crimson Tide (1995) and The American President (1995), but he turned down both roles.
• Lifelong member of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity.

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