Byron Pitts
| Byron Pitts | |
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Pitts in 2011
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| Born |
October 21, 1960 Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
| Education | Ohio Wesleyan University |
| Occupation | Television journalist |
| Years active | 1983–present |
| Notable credit(s) |
CBS Evening News 60 Minutes Nightline |
| Children | Christiani Pitts, Brittni Pitts, Angela Pitts |
Byron Pitts (born October 21, 1960) is an American journalist and author working for ABC News. Until 2013, he served as a chief national correspondent for The CBS Evening News and a contributor to the newsmagazine 60 Minutes. He has covered the September 11, 2001 attacks and Iraq.
Pitts was born October 21, 1960, to Clarice and William Pitts in Baltimore, Maryland. He grew up in working-class neighborhood, raised by a single mother. In his memoir, Pitts discussed that he had a debilitating stutter as a child and was "functionally illiterate" until about age 12. He attended Archbishop Curley High School, an all-boys Catholic high school in Baltimore. He went on to Ohio Wesleyan University, but spent summers in Apex, North Carolina. He graduated in 1982 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Journalism and Speech Communication.
Pitts has always wanted to be a journalist. It was his goal, since he was 18 years old, to be a correspondent on the CBS show 60 Minutes. He interned at WTVD in Durham, North Carolina. After graduation, he bounced around to various television stations on the east coast. During 1983-84, he reported and served as weekend sports anchor at WNCT-TV in Greenville, N.C. He was a military reporter for WAVY-TV in Portsmouth, Virginia (1984–86), and a reporter for WESH-TV Orlando (1986–88). He moved across the Florida peninsula to Tampa to be a reporter and substitute anchor for WFLA-TV (1988–89). After a brief stint there, he moved to Boston as a special assignment reporter for WCVB-TV (1989–94). His last local job was as a general assignment reporter for WSB-TV in Atlanta, Georgia(1994–96).
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