16 Facts About Jeff Glor

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Jeffrey Todd Glor was born on July 12,1975 and is an American journalist, co-host of CBS Saturday Morning and a CBS News special correspondent.

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Jeff Glor had previously anchored the CBS Evening News from 2017 to 2019.

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Jeff Glor was co-anchor of WSTM-TV Syracuse's 5 pm newscast and a reporter for the 11 pm newscast.

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Jeff Glor was the morning news anchor from 1997 to 2000.

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Jeff Glor joined WSTM as a part-time producer while still attending college.

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Jeff Glor was named "Best Male News Anchor" by Syracuse New Times and one of the 40 most promising professionals under the age of 40.

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Jeff Glor served as weekend evening news anchor and weekday reporter for WHDH in Boston from 2003 to 2007.

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Jeff Glor joined CBS News in 2007 as co-anchor, and later newsreader, on the Saturday Early Show.

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Jeff Glor reported primarily for the weekday version of The Early Show, including an extended period in Iraq, China, and on the presidential campaign in 2008.

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Jeff Glor served as news anchor for The Early Show from January 2011 to January 2012.

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Jeff Glor began filling in for Charlie Rose on his eponymous show on PBS.

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On October 25,2017, CBS announced that Jeff Glor would become the new permanent anchor for the CBS Evening News in late 2017, replacing Scott Pelley, who left the position in June 2017.

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In December 2017, Jeff Glor interviewed French President Emmanuel Macron at the One Planet Summit in Paris, following Donald Trump's decision to pull the US out of the 2015 Paris Accords.

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On May 29,2018, the CBS Evening News with Jeff Glor revived the in-depth segment "Eye on America", first launched by CBS News in 1991.

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On May 6,2019, Susan Zirinsky, president of CBS News, announced that, beginning in the summer, Norah O'Donnell would be the new anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News and that the network was "discussing opportunities" for Jeff Glor to remain at CBS News.

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Jeff Glor's brother, Richard, is an expert on lizard evolution and is the Curator of Herpetology at the Kansas University Biodiversity Institute and Museum of Natural History.