Wolf Blitzer

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Career

In the Reuters news agency's Tel Aviv bureau, Blitzer began his career in journalism in the early 1970s. In 1973, he caught the eye of Jerusalem Post editor Ari Rath, who had hired Blitzer as a Washington correspondent for the English-language Israeli newspaper. Blitzer was with The Jerusalem Post until 1990, reporting both American politics and Middle East events.

Blitzer also published articles in several Hebrew-language newspapers, fluent in Hebrew. He wrote for Al HaMishmar under the name Ze'ev Blitzer. He had published in Yedioth Ahronoth, using the name Ze'ev Barak. Ze'ev () is the Hebrew word for "wolf," and Barak () is the Hebrew word for "lightning" in German/Yiddish (which means Blitz/blits in German/Yiddish).

Blitzer served with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) as the editor of their monthly newsletter, the Near East Report, in the mid-1970s. Though writing at AIPAC, Blitzer's writing concentrated on Middle Eastern affairs as they relate to US foreign policy.

Blitzer asked Egyptian President Anwar Sadat why Egyptian scholars, athletes, and journalists were not allowed to visit Israel at a White House press conference in April 1977. After an end to the state of belligerence between the two countries, Sadat said that such visits could be possible. Sadat's first joint Israeli-Egyptian press conference in 1977 to final discussions leading to the signing of the Egypt-Israel peace treaty two years later in November.

Between Washington and Jerusalem: A Reporter's Notebook, 1985, Blitzer published his first book, Between Washington and Jerusalem: A Reporter's Notebook. (Oxford University Press, 1985). The text outlined his personal growth as a journalist as well as Israel's relations.

He became known for his reporting of Jonathan Pollard's detention and conviction as a US Navy intelligence analyst convicted of espionage for Israel in 1986. Blitzer was the first journalist to interview Pollard, and he later wrote a book about the Pollard Affair titled Territory of Lies. Pollard contacted him because he had been reading Blitzer's byline for years, and because Blitzer "had obviously admired him as someone who was sympathetic," Blitzer writes in the book. Pollard also hoped that Blitzer would help him "reach the people of Israel" as well as the American Jewish community.

Blitzer's interview with Pollard was tense in the context of the court suit against him, because it was interpreted by some media outlets as a possible breach of Pollard's plea bargain, which barred media contact. In 1989, Blitzer's sequel to the incident was included in the New York Times' list of "Notable Books of the Year." The Times praised the book as "intell and highly readable" and blasted Blitzer's decision of Israeli officials as "harsh but fair" in its review.

A review of The New York Review of Books was more critical, prompting Blitzer's letter accusing the reviewer of making several inaccurate claims. Robert I. Friedman rebuffled Blitzer's critique by naming Territory of Lies as "a slick piece of damage control that would make [Blitzer's] former employers at AIPAC [not to mention Israel's Defense Ministry] proud."

Pollard was released on November 20, 2015, in accordance with federal regulations that were in force at the time of his sentencing.

In May 1990, Blitzer went to CNN and served as the military affairs reporter for the cable network. His team's coverage of the first Gulf War in Kuwait earned a CableACE Award and made him a household name.

In 1992, Blitzer was appointed CNN's White House correspondent, a post he would hold until 1999. During this period, he received an Emmy Award for his coverage of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombings. In 1998, he began hosting the CNN morning interview show Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer, which was seen in over 180 countries. In 1999, Blitzer's first job as an anchor was on the daily newscast The World Today. He began anchoreding Wolf Blitzer Reports, which continued until 2005.

Since 2004, CNN has selected Blitzer to lead all US presidential elections since 2004. Since August 8, 2005, Blitzer has hosted The Situation Room, a two-hour afternoon/early evening program on CNN.

In 2013, he began anchoring CNN Newsroom's 1 p.m. ET hour; in 2014, the program was renamed to Wolf. Wolf died in 2018 and was replaced by CNN Right Now, hosted by Brianna Keilar.

CNN announced programming changes in January 2021, limiting The Situation Room to one hour (6-7 p.m.), as well as expanding Jake Tapper's role at the network to become Lead Washington anchor and expanded his show The Lead Washington Anchor to 4-6 p.m. (ET). Blitzer will continue to host documentaries and act as "the main anchor for major breaking news." Jim Acosta, on the other hand, is now known as the network's "chief domestic correspondent."

He appeared on CNN's short-lived streaming service, CNN+, from its launch in late March to its late April conclusion in 2022.

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