Hamilton, NY — Jeffrey Fager, executive producer of the CBS news magazine 60 Minutes II, will speak at Colgate University on November 8.
With 50 reporters and producers assigned exclusively to the story, 60 Minutes II has
aired approximately 20 segments, on every aspect of the current events, since the Sept. 11 attacks in New York, Washington, D.C. and Pennsylvania. Fager will show a montage of clips from the program’s coverage and discuss the philosophy and logistics involved in covering such a wide-ranging and complicated story. His lecture is titled ‘A War with Many Fronts.’
Fager, who is a 1977 graduate of Colgate, joined CBS News in 1982. He was named executive producer of 60 Minutes II in July 1998. The program had its debut in January 1999. Prior to assuming the leadership of the news magazine, Fager was executive producer of the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather; senior broadcast producer for that program; a producer for 60 Minutes; and a member of the CBS team that developed and launched 48 Hours.
Fager has covered many major international stories, including the Bosnian war and the U.S. troop deployment there and the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. As a London-based producer in the mid-1980s, he covered Palestinian/Israeli conflicts in Lebanon, Syria and Jordan; the bombing of Libya in 1985; the Reagan-Gorbachev summits in Geneva and Iceland; Gorbachev’s first foreign visit to Paris in 1986; and the fall of Eastern Europe.
Fager’s talk is free and open to the public. It will take place in Golden Auditorium, Little Hall, Colgate University, at 4:00 p.m.