Randall Pinkston

Randall Pinkston has been a New York-based CBS News correspondent since 1994. Pinkston has covered many major stories of the past decade for CBS News, including the postwar reconstruction of Iraq; the war in Afghanistan from the front lines in Tora Bora and Jalalabad; the devastating earthquake in Turkey; the Albanian refugee crisis in Kosovo and the U.S. military participation in the Balkans; Saddam Hussein’s refusal to allow U.N. inspection officers to enter Iraq; the U.S. intervention in Haiti; the Susan Smith trial; the Freemen siege in Montana; and the Unabomber story. Pinkston was the recipient of a 1996 Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism and the Edward R. Murrow Award for his reporting for the documentary, CBS Reports: Legacy of Shame. Pinkston also won two Emmy Awards: in 1998 for coverage of the death of Princess Diana and in 1997 for coverage of the TWA Flight 800 disaster. Previously, Pinkston was based in CBS’s Washington, bureau, where he was White House correspondent from 1990 to 1994. Before that, he worked for WCBS-TV from 1980 to 1990. Pinkston began his television career in Jackson, Miss., at WLBT-TV in 1971.