August 2002

RICHARD SCHLESINGER

(CBS News Correspondent, 48 HOURS INVESTIGATES and CBS EVENING NEWS WITH DAN RATHER)

Richard Schlesinger is a correspondent for 48 HOURS INVESTIGATES and contributes to the CBS EVENING NEWS WITH DAN RATHER and other broadcasts.

He previously served as a full-time correspondent for 48 HOURS (1990-97), reporting on a wide range of topics, including innocent Americans behind bars, marriage and divorce in the 1990s and the middle-class recession. He was the sole reporter for 48 HOURS: "Death by Midnight," an in-depth profile of a convict facing the death penalty, and for 48 HOURS: "Searching for a Cure," an unprecedented look at an experiment for a potentially groundbreaking new AIDS treatment.

Schlesinger also served as the reporter for "CBS REPORTS: Enter the Jury Room," for which he won an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award. The two-hour 1997 documentary, anchored by Ed Bradley, examined the American jury system and marked the first time network television cameras were given access to actual jury deliberations. Schlesinger is also the recipient of nine Emmy Awards.

He joined CBS News in 1984 as a reporter in its Miami bureau and covered stories throughout the southeastern United States and South America before becoming a correspondent in CBS News' Northeast bureau (1987-90). He also served as an investigative reporter for the CBS EVENING NEWS WITH DAN RATHER and has been a substitute anchor for the CBS MORNING NEWS and the Weekend Editions of the CBS EVENING NEWS.

Before joining CBS News, Schlesinger was the Washington bureau chief for the Post-Newsweek television stations (1980-84). He had previously been a political reporter for WPLG-TV Miami (1976-80), where he won a Sigma Delta Chi Award.

He was born Oct. 1, 1954, in New York and was graduated from the University of Missouri in 1976 with a degree in journalism. He lives in New York.

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