Wolf Blitzer

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Wolf Isaac Blitzer (born March 22, 1948) is an American journalist and television news anchor who has hosted CNN's The Situation Room since its launch in 2005. Born in Augsburg, Germany, to Polish Jewish parents who survived the Holocaust, Blitzer immigrated to the United States with his family and grew up in Buffalo, New York. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in history from the State University of New York at Buffalo and a Master of Arts in international relations from Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies. Blitzer began his journalism career in the early 1970s as a reporter for Reuters in Tel Aviv, later working for The Jerusalem Post and editing publications for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), an organization advocating for pro-Israel policies in U.S. foreign affairs. Joining CNN in 1990 as a Pentagon correspondent, he advanced to senior White House correspondent from 1992 to 1999 and anchored Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer before taking the helm of The Situation Room, a program focused on real-time analysis of global events and U.S. policy. Over his 35-year tenure at CNN, Blitzer has covered major international conflicts and U.S. elections, earning awards including the Emmy and Peabody for broadcast excellence, though his interviewing style has faced scrutiny for lacking rigor and his early AIPAC ties have prompted questions about impartiality in Middle East reporting.

In brief

Wolf Blitzer arrived at CNN with a print reporter’s patience and stayed long enough to become the furniture. The Situation Room — maps, guest chairs, a calm voice in a loud hour — is his invention as much as the network’s.

Decades of conventions, wars, and election nights trained an audience to look for him when the news was heavy. That is a rare kind of trust in a disposable medium.