John Blackstone Biography

John Blackstone is an American actor and producer born on May 31st, 1949 in Toronto, Canada. He is also a news correspondent with CBS News and he is best known for An Acrid Yarn(2010), CBS Evening News with Katie Couric(2006), and CBS News Sunday Morning(1979).

He attended York University in Toronto and the School of Journalism at Carleton University in Ottawa. He is based in San Francisco and he covers breaking news throughout the West.

He is a four-time Emmy Award winner for stories broadcasted on CBS Evening News, CBS Sunday Morning, and 48 Hours. He is also responsible for filing reports for CBS This Morning, CBS Radio and CBSNews.com.

John Blackstone CBS News

From his base in San Francisco, CBS News journalist John Blackstone spreads breaking stories all through the West. That regularly implies he is in the area of out of control fires, quakes, floods, typhoons, and thundering volcanoes.

He additionally writes about the innovative business in Silicon Valley and on social and financial patterns that every now and again start in the West.

He is the victor of four national Emmy Awards for stories communicate on the “CBS Evening News,” “CBS Sunday Morning” and “48 Hours.” He additionally documents reports for “CBS This Morning,” CBS Radio, and CBSNews.com.

Blackstone’s detailing assignments have taken him actually to unimaginable lengths. He has revealed from both the North Pole and the South Pole and a significant part of the world in the middle.

Since moving to the San Francisco Bureau in 1986, Blackstone has observed the western states to be rich and changed hotspot for news.

He has stayed outdoors on the Alaskan tundra to write about the discussion over the eventual fate of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. He has climbed through Yosemite and the Grand Canyon giving an account of the National Park Service.

He was one of the main journalists on the scene when the Exxon Valdez steered into the rocks spilling 11 million gallons of oil into Alaska’s Prince William Sound.

Blackstone was with firemen in Montana when their base camp in the Bitterroot Valley was scorched over by the flame they were doing combating.

He has joined geologists in the Cascades as they watched Mount St. Helens rising to life. In Louisiana and Texas, he wrote about the outcome of Hurricane Katrina and the pulverization of Hurricane Rita on the Gulf Coast in 2005.

Blackstone started his profession with CBS News as an outside reporter situated in London (1980-84) and Paris (1984-86). He secured the 1982 Israeli attack of Lebanon and revealed as often as possible from Beirut during the absolute most rough scenes of Lebanon’s respectful war.

Battle assignments additionally took him to Central America to cover the common wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua.

In Africa, he detailed from Ethiopia when starvation took almost a million lives there. He went with agitator powers in Eritrea battling for autonomy.

In South Africa, he secured the road fights and turmoil that at long last brought the arrival of Nelson Mandela and the destruction of politically-sanctioned racial segregation. Preceding to join CBS News, Blackstone was a columnist for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (l974-80).

John Blackstone CBC

John was working for CBC News in Canada before joining CBS News. He was a reporter for CBOT-TV between 1973 and 1974, a station owned by CBC in Ottawa.

John Blackstone Retirement

John retired from CBS News after being a West Coast correspondent for more than 38 years where he covered stories all around the world. He said he was retiring in order to spend time with his family. In a tribute by CBS, they said that though he has retired, he would still be contributing to some of their stories.

John Blackstone Age

He was born on May 31st, 1949 in Toronto, Canada.

John Blackstone Wife

He is married to Sue.

John Blackstone Height

He is approximately 5’7” tall.

John Blackstone Net Worth

He has an estimated net worth of $2.5 million.

John Blackstone CBS Twitter

Surprisingly, he is not on Twitter.