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CBS Anchor/Correspondent Jim Axelrod was a General Assignment and Political Reporter at WRAL-TV from 1993 to 1996. He covered the NC General Assembly and reported on a broad range of local issues during his tenure in Raleigh.

Prior to WRAL, Axelrod worked at WSTM-TV Syracuse, NY and WUTR-TV Utica, NY. He began his career at WVII-TV Bangor, ME in 1989.

At CBS, Jim is the anchor of the Saturday edition of the “CBS Evening News.” He joined CBS News as a Miami-based correspondent and later worked in the network’s Dallas and New York bureaus. He served as CBS News Chief White House Correspondent from 2006-2009 and was named National Correspondent in 2009.

At CBS News Jim has covered a wide range of stories, most notably as a reporter “embedded” with the military during the war in Iraq. Axelrod was the first to report live from Baghdad’s Saddam International Airport after it fell to U.S. troops in 2003. He was also the last reporter to leave with the military in December 2011.

Axelrod has won several major awards, including the duPont-Columbia Silver Baton for reporting on the recession’s effects on children. He was also honored with a national Emmy Award for coverage of the Washington, D.C. sniper siege.

Axelrod is a native of New Jersey who graduated from Cornell University with a B.A. in 1985. He earned an M.A. from Brown University in 1989.

Axelrod is the author of “In The Long Run: A Father, A Son, And Unintentional Lessons In Happiness”, which was published in 2011.

He and his wife, Christina, live in New Jersey with their three children.

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WRAL news reporter Jim Axelrod on Yitzhak Rabin’s NC connection

WRAL News reporter Jim Axelrod, now with CBS News, reported on Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s connection with North Carolina. Yitzhak Rabin was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel, serving two terms in office, 1974–77 and 1992 until his assassination in 1995. Yitzhak’s son worked in Cary at Sapiens, a leading global provider of software solutions for the insurance industry. Michael, a grandson of Yitzhak Rabin, attended Ravenscroft High School for three years in the early 90’s. Axelrod explains more about the North Carolina connection in this WRAL news report from November, 1995.
Jim Axelrod reporting for WRAL-TV

CBS News anchor and correspondent Jim Axelrod during his reporting days at WRAL-TV.
Jim Axelrod

Jim Axelrod in CBS photo
The Politics of Preschool

WRAL News Anchors Pam Saulsby and David Crabtree, with WRAL News Reporter Jim Axelrod look into the controversy over “Smart Start” an early childhood education program in North Carolina. It became a political lightning rod between Democrat Governor Jim Hunt and the Republican control House of Representatives. The question was posed as to whether or not Smart Start was a solid investment for the future of North Carolina.
Roberts, Axelrod and Crabtree

Mark Roberts, Jim Axelrod and David Crabtree in the WRAL-TV break room.

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Jim Axelrod

Highlights for Jim Axelrod

WRAL news reporter Jim Axelrod on Yitzhak Rabin’s NC connection

Jim Axelrod reporting for WRAL-TV

Jim Axelrod

The Politics of Preschool

Roberts, Axelrod and Crabtree