Al Jaffe

Al Jaffe

Al Jaffe is ESPN's vice-president of talent (official title: Vice-President of Talent Negotiation and Production Recruitment), a position he has held since 1996. He was also one of the judges on all three seasons of the network's reality series "Dream Job".

A native of Pittsfield, Massachusetts and a 1968 graduate of Emerson College, where he majored in Mass Communications, Jaffe previously served as a news producer at WHDH-TV and WCVB-TV in Boston, and as News Director at KNTV-TV San Jose, California, and KOVR-TV in Sacramento.

Trivia

While attending Emerson College, Al Jaffe was in a fraternity (Alpha Pi Theta) along with actor Henry Winkler, Vin DiBona, executive producer of America's Funniest Home Videos and Ray Hershel who is a news reporter for WGGB-TV in Springfield, MA

He was elected to the Emerson College Board of Trustees in 2007.

His daughter Pam Jaffe also attended Emerson College and graduated in May 2007.

Awards and honors

*1978 - Emmy Award, Boston Chapter of National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Best Newscast (WCVB-TV)
*1986 - Radio Television News Directors Association Award, Regional Investigative Reporting (KOVR)

External links

* [http://www.dreamjobseason3.com/judges/al.html Al Jaffe bio at ESPN's "Dream Job" Season 3 website]


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