Jeff Fager

Jeff Fager

Jeff Fager (born December 10, 1954) is the executive producer of "60 Minutes", the hour-long CBS news magazine created in 1968. He assumed the post in June 2004. Fager had previously been executive producer of the offshoot "60 Minutes II". Before that, he had been executive producer of "The CBS Evening News" and held senior and field producer positions for that broadcast and other CBS News entities, including "60 Minutes". He began his career in broadcast news in Boston and joined CBS News in 1982 from the network-owned San Francisco, California station, KPIX-TV, where he was a broadcast producer. [ [http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/01/27/60minutes/main538059.shtml Hewitt Sets 60 Minutes Transition] , January 27, 2003]

The "Los Angeles Times" reports a statement made by CBS that "60 Minutes" planned to broadcast an October surprise on the Missing explosives in Iraq story two days before the 2004 US Presidential election:

:"our plan was to run the story on October 31." [ [http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/723793561.html?dids=723793561:723793561&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Oct+26%2C+2004&author=Elizabeth+Jensen&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&edition=&startpage=A.7&desc=CBS+Had+Iraq+Story%2C+Just+Not+in+Time CBS Had Iraq Story, Just Not in Time] , October 26, 2004]

He graduated from Colgate University in 1977.

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