Jane Wallace is an American journalist. She was correspondent for CBS News as well as the news magazine '' West 57th''.

Education

Wallace was one of the first female graduates of

Yale College Yale College is the undergraduate college of Yale University. Founded in 1701, it is the original school of the university. Although other Yale schools were founded as early as 1810, all of Yale was officially known as Yale College until 1887, ...

. While there, she also worked part-time at TV stations in

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Career

After graduating college, she was an on-the-air reporter for a station in

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. Wallace was sent to

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in the 80s by CBS. During her time at CBS, she covered two international stories, the exposition of US government's mining of a Nicaraguan harbor and the hiring of drug-smuggling pilots from the CIA. She also covered the riots in Haiti. In 1994, she hosted the half hour news program ''Under Scrutiny with Jane Wallace'' on the new fX cable television channel.

Family

Wallace has an adopted son named Zach (Zachariah Max). She is the fourth of five girls and a son. Her younger sister named Susan (Suki) Wallace who used to work at a TV station in

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. She was a reporter at NBC's South Florida affiliate, WTVJ. Her sister passed away in January 2018, after a battle with cancer.

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* Living people American women journalists CBS News people Yale College alumni 1956 births 21st-century American women {{US-journalist-1950s-stub