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Jane Clayson Johnson (born April 25, 1967) is an American journalist and author.


Early life and career

Clayson was born in
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, and spent most of her childhood there. She played with the
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and is an accomplished
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. She graduated from
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in Provo, Utah, in 1990 with a degree in journalism. Clayson began her career at
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in
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(1990–96). While at KSL, she traveled to China to write and produce a series of stories about American doctors assisting Chinese children with disabilities. Her work there earned a regional Emmy. She also received the Radio and Television News Directors of America's Edward R. Murrow Award while at KSL.


ABC News

In 1996, Clayson moved to
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, where she worked as a correspondent for ''
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'', '' World News Tonight'', and other
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broadcasts. Her work included coverage of
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's 1996 presidential campaign, the O.J. Simpson civil trial, and NATO's strikes against
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and the resulting refugee crisis in Macedonia.


''The Early Show'' and CBS News

In 1999,
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launched "Operation Glass Slipper," the widely publicized search for
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's co-host on ''
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''. On November 1, 1999, Clayson was chosen, and joined Gumbel for the show's first broadcast. From 1999 to 2002, she anchored ''The Early Show'' through the new millennium, the inauguration of President
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, and the attacks on September 11, 2001. Clayson may be best known for her awkward confrontation with ''Early Show'' food and style contributor
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during this period; Stewart was involved in the
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, but retained her ''Early Show'' contributor duties during the initial stages of the controversy. CBS required Stewart to address the issue as a condition of keeping those contributor duties. Stewart, upon consulting her legal team, agreed to take questions on air, but not in a separate interview. As a result, during one of Stewart's usual live cooking segments (in June 2002), Clayson, who normally assisted Stewart with preparing the meal, asked her to comment on her involvement with ImClone and her selling of ImClone stock just one day before an application for a new ImClone cancer drug was rejected; a visibly uncomfortable Stewart, obsessively chopping vegetables for a
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, evaded Clayson's questions, citing her inability to comment on an ongoing investigation. (Stewart was indicted in 2003, tried and convicted in 2004, and served five months in federal prison for her involvement in the case.) Stewart stopped contributing to the program after the appearance, which was immortalized in an
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TV-movie of Stewart's life a few months later (with
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playing the role of Stewart). In 2002, Clayson became a correspondent for CBS News. She regularly reported for "Eye on America" segments and contributed to both '' 48 Hours'' and ''
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''.


Personal life

Clayson is the eldest of three children. In 1986, her younger brother, David, died of a brain tumour. Her father was a vascular surgeon and her mother a homemaker. In September 2003, Clayson married Mark W. Johnson, a graduate of the
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,
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(with a
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in civil engineering and engineering mechanics) and
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. They were first introduced to each other by Clayson's sister. Johnson had joined
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(LDS Church), of which Clayson was already a member, not long before they first met. Clayson left CBS three months later (December 2003) to join her husband in
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, where he was for a time president of the management consulting firm,
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, which he co-founded with
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. The couple have two children, and have also raised three children from Mark's previous marriage.''Deseret News'' Feb. 2015
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''I Am a Mother!''

Johnson, under her professional name, Jane Clayson, was the primary fill-in host on the public radio program ''
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'', when previous regular host
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was absent. She has produced specials for the
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. She also hosted
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's coverage of the funeral for LDS Church president
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on February 2, 2008. Her first book,
I Am a Mother!
', was released in March 2007 and chronicles her decision to leave the network news business to have a family. She regularly speaks on the topic at events across the United States.


References


External links

* Irene Sege
"Jane Clayson Johnson Left It All Behind to Have a Baby,"
''Boston Globe'', October 12, 2004. (Accessed March 24, 2007.)
Official ''CBS News'' bio.
(Accessed March 24, 2007.) * Jane Clayson Johnson

2006 Conference on the Family, American Mothers, Inc. (Accessed March 24, 2007.) * March for Babies - PSA 2008 March of Dimes {{DEFAULTSORT:Clayson-Johnson, Jane 1967 births Living people Latter Day Saints from Massachusetts Brigham Young University alumni Writers from Sacramento, California American women journalists CBS News people Latter Day Saints from California Latter Day Saints from Utah