Greg Lefevre
Cardiff by the Sea, California
Greg Lefevre
Cardiff by the Sea, California
Greg Lefevre ("le-FAVE") is a veteran journalist with four decades in broadcast journalism. He is now in private practice as a media consultant and video producer.
Lefevre assists corporations and associations in their presence before the media, with on-camera training, coaching, speech improvement and message development. His clients have included Sempra Energy, The Southern California Gas Company, Oracle, Logitech, Chevron, Amoco, Hewlett-Packard and members of the medical and legal professions. Clients have appeared on 60 Minutes , CNN, CBS, Fox News and in the New York Times.
For 17 years Greg Lefevre served as Bureau Chief and Correspondent for CNN's San Francisco Bureau. He supervised newsgathering for CNN in the northwestern United States and reported stories for worldwide broadcast.
Greg covered wars in the Middle East, technology, new media, the internet, the O.J. Simpson case, a dozen Presidential campaigns, the San Francisco and Los Angeles earthquakes. He filed more than seventy on the scene reports on the 1989 Alaska Oil Spill and dozens of follow ups, the most of any network correspondent.
Lefevre covered the Middle East in three tours, as Pentagon pool reporter during the Iran-Iraq war in 1988, and twice during the Gulf War. He reported live during Scud attacks in Israel and covered Palestinian refugees in Amman, Jordan.
Lefevre created and supervised an instant news bureau in Oklahoma City supervising a staff of 92 covering the April 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building.
Lefevre won a national Emmy award as leader of the CNN team at Oklahoma City.
Lefevre joined CNN in 1983 as a Correspondent in San Francisco, and soon promoted to Bureau Chief. He came to CNN from KSEE-TV, Fresno, California, were he was News Director. Lefevre also reported for TechTV and KPIX-TV (CBS owned) in San Francisco, KDFW-TV, Dallas, Texas, and KFMB-TV, San Diego.
A native of Encino, California, Greg Lefevre holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Telecommunications and Film, Management Sequence from San Diego State University.
Greg and his wife Deb reside in Cardiff by the Sea in Southern California. They enjoy surfing, golf and baseball.