Oren Liebermann is an American journalist who works as a Pentagon correspondent for
CNN
CNN (Cable News Network) is a multinational cable news channel headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by ...
.
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 located in east central Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is located on the Jersey Shore. The township is a bedroom suburb of New York City. Ocean Township consists of three main unincorporated c ...
, 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, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school in the Ocean Township ...
.
He speaks English in addition to his first language
Hebrew
Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved ...
.
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. Founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson, the university is ranked among the top academic institutions in the United S ...
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. Established in 1870 with roots in the Methodist Episcopal Church, the university has been nonsectarian since 1920. Locate ...
.
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 in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It is the county seat of Albemarle County, which surrounds the city, though the two are separate legal entities. It is named after Queen Ch ...
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 l ...
in
Salisbury, Maryland
Salisbury () is a city in and the county seat of Wicomico County, Maryland, Wicomico County, Maryland, United States, and the largest city in Eastern Shore of Maryland, the state's Eastern Shore region. The population was 33,050 at the 2020 United ...
; 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) with ...
of
Scranton, Pennsylvania
Scranton is a city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat of Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, Lackawanna County. With a population of 76,328 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 U ...
; 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 Fox affiliate WVBT (cha ...
in
Norfolk, Virginia
Norfolk ( ) is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. Incorporated in 1705, it had a population of 238,005 at the 2020 census, making it the third-most populous city in Virginia after neighboring Virginia Be ...
.
In 2010,
he worked as a general assignment reporter for
CBS 3 in Philadelphia.
In 2015, he joined
CNN
CNN (Cable News Network) is a multinational cable news channel headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by ...
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 Delaware.
He lives with his wife, daughter and son in Virginia. He has
Type 1 Diabetes
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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
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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