BIOS OF ON-AIR PERSONNEL

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KATIE COURIC - Anchor and managing editor of the CBS EVENING NEWS WITH KATIE COURIC, 60 MINUTES correspondent and anchor of CBS News primetime specials since September 2006...first female solo anchor of a weekday network evening news broadcast...recipient of 2008 Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Newscast...anchored  CBS News' live coverage from the 2008 Iowa Caucuses and the New Hampshire and Ohio primaries, as well as Super Tuesday and other primary nights...conducted a critically acclaimed series of in-depth and incisive interviews of the primary season candidates for the CBS EVENING NEWS called "Primary Questions," geared to reveal their character and how they might actually perform as president...covered the 2008 State of the Union from the nation's capitol...conducted numerous exclusive newsmaker interviews for the CBS EVENING NEWS and 60 MINUTES, including President George W. Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, John and Elizabeth Edwards just after their announcement that Mrs. Edwards' cancer had returned, Israeli Foreign Prime Minister Tzipi Livin, General George Petraeus and Syrian President Bashar Assad, among others.

BOB SCHIEFFER - Anchor of FACE THE NATION, CBS News' Sunday public affairs broadcast, since May 1991...CBS News' chief Washington correspondent since 1982...interim anchor of the weekday CBS EVENING NEWS from March 10, 2005 until Aug. 31, 2006...covered every Republican and Democratic Convention as a floor reporter for CBS News, as well as every presidential and national election, since 1972...served as anchor of the Saturday edition of the CBS EVENING NEWS for 20 years (1976-96)...joined CBS News in 1969 and has worked all four major beats (White House, Pentagon, State Department and Capitol Hill)...in 2005, his alma mater, Texas Christian University, named its journalism school in his honor...member of the Broadcasting &Cable Hall of Fame...has received many broadcast journalism awards for weekly commentaries on FACE THE NATION...recipient of six Emmy Awards and the prestigious Paul White Award presented in 2003 by the Radio-Television News Directors Association...author of Face The Nation: My Favorite Stories from the First 50 Years of the Award-winning News Broadcast, as well as the 2003 New York Times bestseller, This Just In: What I Couldn't Tell You On TV and Acting President, published in 1989...next book, Bob Schieffer's America, will be published in September 2008.

JEFF GREENFIELD - CBS News' senior political correspondent since May 2007...contributes to the CBS EVENING NEWS WITH KATIE COURIC, THE EARLY SHOW, CBS NEWS SUNDAY MORNING and other CBS News broadcasts, as well as CBSNews.com...was a senior analyst for CNN, where he served as lead analyst for its coverage of the primaries, conventions, presidential debates and election nights, as well as presidential funerals and Supreme Court confirmation hearings (1998-2007)...served as a floor reporter or anchor-booth analyst for every national convention since 1988...twice named to TV Guide's All-Star team as best political commentator and was cited by the Washington Journalism Review as "the best in the business" for his media analysis...won three Emmy Awards, two for his reporting from South Africa and one for a profile of Ross Perot...author or co-author of 11 books, the first of which,  The People's Choice, was a national bestseller and was named by The New York Times Book Review as one of the notable books of the year.

DAN BARTLETT - Most recently, Counselor to the President (January 2005-July 2007), responsible for all aspects of President George W. Bush's strategic communications planning, formulation of policy and implementation of the President's agenda...also oversaw White House Press Office and Offices of Communications, Media Affairs and Speechwriting...Assistant to the President for Communications and White House Communications Director (June 2002-January 2005) and Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy to then-Counselor to the President Karen Hughes (January 2001-June 2002)...senior spokesman and Director of Rapid Response for Bush for President campaign in Austin, Texas...served President Bush since 1993, working on both successful campaigns for Governor of Texas...worked in Governor's Office as Deputy to the Policy Director (1994-98) and, during 1998 re-election campaign, as Issues Director...worked for Karl Rove and Company, Austin-based political consulting firm...currently a senior strategist based in Austin for Public Strategies, Inc., a strategic communications firm.

JOE TRIPPI - Most recently was a senior advisor to John Edwards' 2008 presidential campaign...has played key roles in the presidential campaigns of Howard Dean, Richard Gephardt, Gary Hart, Walter Mondale and Edward M. Kennedy... pioneered use of online technology to organize what became the largest and most lucrative grassroots movement in the history of presidential politics as National Campaign Manager for Dean's 2004 presidential run...began career in media consulting at the firm of Doak, Shrum and Associates (1985-90), where he was involved in strategic and media planning for the successful campaigns of Jerry Baliles for governor of Virginia and Bob Casey for governor of Pennsylvania.  Trippi also was instrumental in the re-election campaigns of Sen. Alan Cranston of California and Mayor Tom Bradley of Los Angeles...in 1990, created his own firm, Trippi & Associates, and went to work on successful campaigns of U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, Gov. John Kitzhaber of Oregon and California Attorney General Jerry Brown, as well as several successful Congressional campaigns...author of The Revolution Will Not Be Televised:  Democracy, The Internet And The Overthrow Of Everything (2004, Harper Collins Regan)...former Harvard University fellow.

HARRY SMITH - Co-anchor of THE EARLY SHOW since 2002...serves as substitute anchor for the CBS EVENING NEWS WITH KATIE COURIC and CBS NEWS SUNDAY MORNING...also contributes to SUNDAY MORNING...has interviewed many newsmakers, including former Presidents Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, first lady Laura Bush, Sen. John McCain, Sen. Barack Obama, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and former Secretary of State Colin Powell...reported extensively on Campaign '04, including anchoring from several major primaries and the Republican National Convention in New York City for THE EARLY SHOW...served as co-anchor of "CBS This Morning" (1987-96), covering a wide range of domestic and international stories, including the 1988, 1992 and 1996 Republican and Democratic National Conventions.

DEAN REYNOLDS - CBS News correspondent based in Chicago since July 2007...correspondent for ABC News for 23 years before that...covered many presidential campaigns, including that of Sen. John Kerry in 2004 and Gov. George W. Bush in 2000...assigned to ABC's Tel Aviv and Jerusalem bureaus, from where he covered the Palestinian uprising against Israeli forces, the first Gulf War, the Arab-Israeli peace process, the war in the Balkans and the influx of Russian immigrants to the Jewish state...White House correspondent for CNN during the Reagan administration...recipient of three Emmy Awards, as well as the White House Correspondents' Association's Merriman Smith Award for excellence in presidential news coverage for his reporting on the shooting of President Ronald Reagan.

BYRON PITTS - CBS News national correspondent since 2006...joined CBS News as a correspondent in 1998,  based in Atlanta (1999-2001) and Miami (1998-99)...covered Sen. John Kerry's presidential campaign in 2004 and reported on the subsequent Florida recount...embedded reporter during the war in Iraq, including the march to Baghdad...reported live and while under fire for THE EARLY SHOW as the statue of Saddam came down in Firdos Square...CBS News' primary correspondent at Ground Zero following the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center...covered the war in Afghanistan, the military buildup in Kuwait, the Elian Gonzalez story, the Florida Presidential recount and the refugee crisis in Kosovo, among many stories...correspondent for CBS NEWSPATH, the Division's 24-hour news service, in Washington, D.C. (1997-98)...has received several awards, including a 2001 Emmy Award and a National Association of Black Journalists Award.

MAGGIE RODRIGUEZ - Co-anchor of THE EARLY SHOW since January 2008...joined CBS News in June 2007 as co-anchor of the Saturday edition of that broadcast...has reported for the CBS EVENING NEWS WITH KATIE COURIC and substitute-anchored the weekday and weekend edition of the CBS EVENING NEWS...anchored the 5:00 p.m. and 11:00 PM newscasts at WFOR-TV, the CBS Owned station in Miami (2000- 07)...first on the air with coverage of the transfer of power from Fidel Castro to his brother, Raul, which earned the newscast an RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Award...anchored the midday news and a weekend magazine show at KABC-TV Los Angeles (1994-2000)...received seven Emmy Awards and two RTNDA Murrow Awards.

CHIP REID - CBS News' Capitol Hill correspondent since September 2007...primary correspondent covering Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign...reported on the Senate and the House of Representatives for NBC News...was embedded for seven weeks with a lead unit of the U.S. Marines during the initial march of U.S troops from Kuwait to Baghdad...reported from Ground Zero and the Pentagon following the Sept. 11 attacks...was based in Washington, D.C. (1996-2000), where he covered Al Gore's 2000 Presidential campaign-and the fallout from the voting irregularities-and the impeachment of President Clinton, as well as many other Beltway stories.

NANCY CORDES - Among other duties, CBS News' transportation and consumer safety correspondent since April 2007 when she joined the Network...based in Washington, D.C...ABC News correspondent based in New York (2005-07), where she reported on many major news stories, including Hurricane Katrina, the war in Iraq and the 2004 Presidential election...Washington-based correspondent for NewsOne, the affiliate news service of ABC News (2003-04)...reported for WJLA-TV in Washington, D.C., where she covered the Sept. 11 attack on the Pentagon and the 2000 Presidential race.

BILL PLANTE - CBS News White House correspondent since 1981...joined CBS News in June 1964 as a New York-based reporter/assignment editor...covered every Presidential campaign since 1968...served as CBS News' State Department correspondent during George H.W. Bush's presidency (1989-92)...was part of the CBS News team which received a 1986 Emmy Award for coverage of the Reagan-Gorbachev summit at Reykjavik, Iceland... served as anchor of the "CBS Sunday Night News" (1988-95)...following the Shah's departure from Iran in 1979, was one of two American journalists to cover a revolutionary trial in Teheran...reported on the bombing strikes over North Vietnam and the fall of the governments in Vietnam and Cambodia...received numerous Emmy Awards, including one for his coverage of Reagan's 1984 re-election campaign.

JEFF GLOR - National correspondent for THE EARLY SHOW since March 2007...anchors CBS EVENING NEWS Saturday edition...covered the 2008 Summer Olympics for CBS News...was a weekend evening news anchor and a weekday reporter for WHDH-TV Boston (2003-2007)...covered many national news stories, including the 2004 Summer Olympics from Greece, the Pope's death from Rome in 2005 and the hearings on steroid use in Major League Baseball from Washington, D.C. in 2005...co-anchor of WSTM-TV Syracuse's 5:00 PM newscast and reporter for 11:00 PM newscast (2000-03), as well as morning news anchor (1997-2000).

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