John Stossel Biography

Fast Facts

• Has won the George Foster Peabody Award and the George Polk Award for Outstanding Local Reporting
• Named by the Dallas Morning News as "the most consistently thought-provoking TV reporter of our time․"
• Has earned 19 Emmy Awards and been honored five times by the National Press Club for excellence in consumer reporting
• Has written three national bestselling books on American economics and government
• Graduated from Princeton University with a degree in Psychology in 1969
• Has worked at WCBS-TV in New York City and was the consumer editor for "Good Morning America․"
• Started out as a researcher for KGW-TV in Portland
• Quote: "(On global warming) "Activists always paint the more dire scenario․ But we don't know․ The science of climate predicting is primitive․""
• Previously co-anchored the primetime news show "20/20" on ABC, where his "John Stossel specials" featured debates on important American issues
• Best known as the host of the consumer issues program "Stossel․"
• His programs have been made into teaching kits by the non-profit "Stossel in the Classroom" and are used to teach high school students about economics and economic freedom