Richard Schlesinger Biography

Fast Facts

• Was involved in the 1997 documentary "Enter the Jury Room" that marked the first time network television cameras were given access to jury deliberations, which won an Alfred I․ DuPont Award from Columbia University
• Won a Sigma Delta Chi Award while working as a political reporter in Miami
• Earned his degree in journalism from the University of Missouri, graduating in 1976
• One of his earliest forays into journalism began in 1976 when he became a reporter for Miami's WPLG-TV
• Between 1980 and 1984, he served as the Washington bureau chief for the Post-Newsweek television stations
• While serving as a full-time correspondent for "48 Hours" from 1990 to 1997, he reported on innocent Americans behind bars, marriage and divorce in the 1990s and the middle-class recession
• From 1987 to 1990, he worked as a correspondent in the CBS News northeast bureau
• Worked as an investigative reporter for "CBS Evening News" in the late 1980s
• Joined CBS News in 1984 as a Miami-based reporter, covering stories in the southeastern United States and South America
• Was one of the Keynote Speakers at the National District Attorneys Association's 2011 Summer Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho