Jeff Fager

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Jeff Fager is executive producer of 60 Minutes, the hour-long CBS news magazine created in 1968. He assumed the post in June 2004. Fager had previously been executive producer of the offshoot 60 Minutes II. Before that, he had been 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 began his career in broadcast news in Boston and joined CBS News in 1982 from the network's owned San Francisco station, KPIX-TV, where he was broadcast producer. [1]

The LATimes reports a statement made by CBS that 60 MINUTES planned to broadcast an October surprise on the Missing explosives in Iraq story two days before the 2004 US Presidential election:

"our plan was to run the story on October 31." [2]

He graduated from Colgate University in 1977.