Oren Liebermann is an American journalist who works as a Pentagon correspondent for
CNN
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.
Biography
Liebermann was born in Virginia on October 13, 1982. He spent his childhood in Virginia and Israel until he was raised in the
Wayside section of
Ocean Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey
Ocean Township is a Township (New Jersey), township situated on the Jersey Shore in east central Monmouth County, New Jersey, Monmouth County, within the U.S. state of New Jersey. The township is a bedroom suburb of New York City. Ocean Townshi ...
, where he attended
Ocean Township High School
Ocean Township High School (OTHS) is a four-year comprehensive public high school located in the Oakhurst section of Ocean Township, in Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, operating as the lone secondary school in the Ocean To ...
.
He speaks English in addition to his first language
Hebrew
Hebrew (; ''ʿÎbrit'') is a Northwest Semitic languages, Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family. A regional dialect of the Canaanite languages, it was natively spoken by the Israelites and ...
.
He graduated with a B.S. from the
University of Virginia
The University of Virginia (UVA) is a Public university#United States, public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States. It was founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson and contains his The Lawn, Academical Village, a World H ...
informational technology and marketing and a M.A. in Broadcast Journalism from
Syracuse University
Syracuse University (informally 'Cuse or SU) is a Private university, private research university in Syracuse, New York, United States. It was established in 1870 with roots in the Methodist Episcopal Church but has been nonsectarian since 1920 ...
.
After school, he began his career in radio working as a sports reporter for
WINA-AM in
Charlottesville, Virginia
Charlottesville, colloquially known as C'ville, is an independent city (United States), independent city in Virginia, United States. It is the county seat, seat of government of Albemarle County, Virginia, Albemarle County, which surrounds the ...
before moving to television as a reporter for
WBOC-TV
WBOC-TV (channel 16) is a television station in Salisbury, Maryland, United States, affiliated with CBS and Fox. It is the flagship television property of the Milton, Delaware–based Draper Holdings Business Trust, and is co-owned with low ...
in
Salisbury, Maryland
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; the Washington, D.C. reporter for
WYOU-TV
WYOU (channel 22) is a television station licensed to Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States, serving as the CBS affiliate for Northeastern Pennsylvania. It is owned by Mission Broadcasting, which maintains a shared services agreement (SSA) wit ...
of
Scranton, Pennsylvania
Scranton is a city in and the county seat of Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States. With a population of 76,328 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, Scranton is the most populous city in Northeastern Pennsylvania and the ...
; and in 2007, he joined
WAVY-TV
WAVY-TV (channel 10) is a television station licensed to Portsmouth, Virginia, United States, serving the Hampton Roads area as an affiliate of NBC. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside Virginia Beach–licensed dual Fox affiliate/ CW o ...
in
Norfolk, Virginia
Norfolk ( ) is an independent city (United States), independent city in the U.S. state of Virginia. It had a population of 238,005 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the List of cities in Virginia, third-most populous city ...
.
In 2010,
he worked as a general assignment reporter for
CBS 3 in Philadelphia.
In 2015, he joined
CNN
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as their Jerusalem correspondent.
During his time as a journalist, he has won two Emmys and three Associated Press awards.
He is now a Pentagon correspondent for CNN.
Personal life
In 2012, he married
Allentown Allentown may refer to:
Places
* Allentown, California, now called Toadtown, California
* Allentown, Georgia, a city in four counties in Georgia
* Allentown, Illinois, an unincorporated community in Tazewell County
* Allentown, New Jersey, a boroug ...
-native Cassandra "Cassie" Kramer
in an interfaith ceremony.
They met while both were working as reporters at WBOC in Maryland.
He lives with his wife, daughter and son in Virginia. He has
Type 1 Diabetes
Type 1 diabetes (T1D), formerly known as juvenile diabetes, is an autoimmune disease that occurs when the body's immune system destroys pancreatic cells (beta cells). In healthy persons, beta cells produce insulin. Insulin is a hormone require ...
which only manifested when he was about 30 years old and hiking in Southeast Asia. He serves as an advocate for those who have the condition
and has authored a book detailing his experience entitled "The Insulin Express."
References
CNN people
Living people
Israeli Jews
Jewish American journalists
Ocean Township High School alumni
People from Ocean Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey
University of Virginia alumni
Syracuse University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American Jews
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