John Paxson

John Paxson is Vice President, Europe, and Bureau Chief, CBS News London, where he is responsible for editorial and logistical coverage of Europe, Africa, and South Asia. He supervises a CBS staff in London and other CBS people in field bureaus in Paris, Bonn, Tel Aviv, Moscow and Johannesburg. He has previously been assigned by CBS to Dallas, Los Angeles, and New York. Prior to that he was Bureau Chief for Voice of America in Chicago and Chief of the Washington DC Voice of America Documentary...See more

John Paxson is Vice President, Europe, and Bureau Chief, CBS News London, where he is responsible for editorial and logistical coverage of Europe, Africa, and South Asia. He supervises a CBS staff in London and other CBS people in field bureaus in Paris, Bonn, Tel Aviv, Moscow and Johannesburg. He has previously been assigned by CBS to Dallas, Los Angeles, and New York. Prior to that he was Bureau Chief for Voice of America in Chicago and Chief of the Washington DC Voice of America Documentary Unit. Included among the many top stories Mr. Paxson has covered live are: the war in Bosnia; the Gulf War; the LA Riots; OJ's LA freeway chase; the San Francisco earthquake; the deaths of Princess Diana and Mother Teresa; the TWA hijacking; the hostage release in Beirut; the presidential campaigns of Carter and Reagan; and Watergate. John Paxson was born in Montana and raised on a farm in the Bitterroot Valley. He speaks several languages and has won three Emmys. He is married to a former television news reporter, and has two lovely daughters. See less