Randall Pinkston contributed to the CBS Reports documentary, Legacy of Shame with Correspondent Dan Rather.
15 Facts About Randall Pinkston
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Randall Pinkston has filled in as anchor on the CBS Evening News-Weekend Edition, Up to the Minute and CBS Morning News.
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Randall Pinkston earned a Juris Doctor degree from University of Connecticut Law School in 1980.
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Randall Pinkston began his career at WLBT-TV in Jackson, Mississippi, where he worked as an anchor and reported from 1971 until 1974.
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Randall Pinkston then worked for WJXT-TV from 1974 until 1976, as urban affairs director, a general assignment reporter and the producer of a daily public affairs program.
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From 1976 until 1980, Randall Pinkston worked for WFSB-TV in Hartford, where he served as a reporter, an anchor and the producer of several public affairs programs and specials.
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From 1980 until 1990, Randall Pinkston worked for WCBS-TV in New York, where he served as a reporter and as the station's New Jersey correspondent from 1989 until 1990.
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In 1990, Randall Pinkston joined CBS News as its White House correspondent.
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From 1992 until 1994, Randall Pinkston remained in CBS' Washington bureau.
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In 1994, Randall Pinkston was moved to CBS' New York bureau.
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Randall Pinkston reported for the CBS Evening News and for other CBS news broadcasts.
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Randall Pinkston has covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as the US intervention in Haiti, the Unabomber story, the standoff involving the Montana Freemen and the trial of Susan Smith.
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In November 2000, Randall Pinkston was a candidate for a job anchoring at WBBM-TV in Chicago.
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Randall Pinkston taped an audition in November 2000 with longtime WBBM news anchor Linda MacLennan, according to an article in the November 15,2000, edition of the Chicago Sun-Times.
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On May 19,2013 it was announced that Randall Pinkston was leaving CBS after 33 years with the company.