Oren Liebermann is an American journalist who works as a Pentagon correspondent for

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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

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, where he attended

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. He speaks English in addition to his first language

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. He graduated with a B.S. from the

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informational technology and marketing and a M.A. in Broadcast Journalism from

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. After school, he began his career in radio working as a sports reporter for WINA-AM in

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before moving to television as a reporter for

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; the Washington, D.C. reporter for

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; and in 2007, he joined

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. In 2010, he worked as a general assignment reporter for CBS 3 in Philadelphia. In 2015, he joined

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

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-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

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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

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