Barry Petersen is a CBS News Correspondent. Interview conducted by Gary Barg of caregiver.com He has reported on wars, natural disasters, Paris fashions, the fading popularity of Welsh choirs, and the return of American

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, China. He has worked for

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for more than three decades.

Biography

After attending high school in

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, he studied at

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’s Medill School of Journalism. Petersen wrote about his wife's diagnosis with early onset of

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in 2005, in a work entitled "Jan's Story", which was published in June 2010. Jan was also a CBS News journalist, reporting from both Japan and the former Soviet Union for CBS News Radio,

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, and the CBS Weekend News.

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Barry Petersen
{{DEFAULTSORT:Petersen, Barry Living people American television reporters and correspondents Medill School of Journalism alumni People from Sidney, Montana Journalists from Montana CBS News people Year of birth missing (living people)