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Jeff Fager (born December 10, 1954) is the former Chairman of CBS News and the current Executive Producer of ''60 Minutes'', the hour-long CBS news magazine created in 1968. ==Career== Fager graduated from Colgate University in 1977. As a teen, he spent some of his years in the Town of Wellesley and graduated from Wellesley High School in the class of 1973. He began his career in broadcast news in Boston and joined CBS News in 1982 from San Francisco, California station, KPIX-TV, where he was a broadcast producer. Fager then became an Executive Producer of ''The CBS Evening News'' and held senior and field producer positions for that broadcast and other CBS News entities, including ''60 Minutes''; he soon became an Executive Producer of ''60 Minutes II''. In June 2004, he assumed the position of Executive Producer of ''60 Minutes''.〔(Hewitt Sets 60 Minutes Transition ), January 27, 2003〕 In February 2011, it was announced that Jeff Fager would lead the news division of CBS as Chairman of CBS News, a newly created position. In tandem with the newly appointed president David Rhodes, Fager would head CBS News while continuing to executive produce ''60 Minutes''.〔(Jeffrey Fager CBS News Bio ), February 28, 2011〕 Since stepping in as Chairman of CBS News, Fager has vowed to "restore CBS News to where it should be, where it needs to be," using the original reporting and storytelling of ''60 Minutes'' as a benchmark for its other flagship news programs.〔(CBS News: We'll Never Pay Casey Anthony, Apologize to Lance Armstrong ), July 28, 2011〕 On January 1, 2015, Fager stepped down as Chairman but continued in his executive producer role. David Rhodes continues to serve as President of the CBS News Division. 〔(Jeff Fager Announces His Decision to Return to Role as Executive Producer of "60 Minutes" Full-Time and to Step Down From Post as Chairman of CBS News ), November 20, 2014〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jeff Fager」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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