Joshua Levs, commonly known as Josh Levs, is an American

broadcast journalist Broadcast journalism is the field of news and journals which are broadcast by electronic methods instead of the older methods, such as printed newspapers and posters. It works on radio (via air, cable, and Internet), television (via air, cable, ...

. Born in

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, he reports for the

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news television network.

Biography

Levs was raised in a

Conservative Jewish Conservative Judaism, known as Masorti Judaism outside North America, is a Jewish religious movement which regards the authority of ''halakha'' (Jewish law) and traditions as coming primarily from its people and community through the generat ...

family in

and received his

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from

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...

. He worked for

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before moving to

. Levs has spent more than 10 years at CNN, reporting across all platforms and networks. When Levs requested extended paid parental leave from CNN's parent company Time Warner in August 2013, he was denied anything more than the two weeks of paid leave for biological fathers—much less than 10 weeks paid leave that were provided for women and for men who had babies through adoption or surrogacy. Levs used his two paid weeks, and additionally vacation and sick days as he cared for his three children and wife, who had developed severe

preeclampsia Pre-eclampsia is a disorder of pregnancy characterized by the onset of high blood pressure and often a significant amount of protein in the urine. When it arises, the condition begins after 20 weeks of pregnancy. In severe cases of the disease ...

. Levs filed a charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against Time Warner demanding equitable paid paternity leave, essentially winning the claim a year later. Levs is married to Melanie Lasoff; they have three children.

Parenting book

According to the

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, Levs turned his paternity leave experience into a 2015 book, '' All In: How Our Work-First Culture Fails Dads, Families, and Businesses--And How We Can Fix It Together,'' asserting the need for more paternity leave in view of changes in family dynamics that have occurred over the last fifty years.

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External links

Josh Levs Blog
at

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Biography

Parenting book

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