Steve Kroft

Few journalists have achieved the impact and recognitionthat Steve Kroft's 60 Minutes work has generated for over two decades. Thefive-time Peabody Award winner delivered his first report for 60 Minutes inSeptember 1989 and the 2014-15 season is his 26th.

Several of Kroft’s stories count among the most memorable inthe broadcast's history, beginning with his 1992 interview with then-Gov. BillClinton and his wife, Hillary - the defining moment in that year's presidentialcampaign watched by nearly 34 million people. His interview with the firstAfrican-American president of the U.S. and his wife in November of 2008 wasBarack and Michelle Obama's first post-election sit-down and the largesttelevision audience of the year to that point, drawing over 25 million viewers.Kroft's report from the still-radioactive Chernobyl nuclear power complex in1990 was a classic 60 Minutes moment. He returned to Chernobyl in 1994 andbecame the first American reporter to enter the crippled reactor building.Other memorable 60 Minutes stories include the only television interview withWoody Allen during his bitter custody battle with Mia Farrow; a report onalleged jury tampering in the O. J. Simpson murder case; and his investigationof Saddam Hussein's hidden financial assets, estimated in the billions ofdollars, which attracted worldwide attention.

Kroft's 60 Minutes story on insider trading in the U.S.Congress in late 2011 drove the passage of Senate and House versions of theSTOCK Act (Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge) to prevent members ofCongress from financial market trading based on nonpublic information learnedin the course of their congressional work. He also reported two of the biggestnews stories of 2011, getting the only interview of President Barack Obama onthe killing of Osama bin Laden and revealing that Greg Mortenson lied in hisbest-selling book, "Three Cups of Tea," and misrepresented theachievements of his charity.

In 2010, Kroft was chosen for the Paul White Award by theRadio, Television and Digital News Association (RTDNA) - the highest honor fromthe industry's largest peer association. At the same time, he became the only60 Minutes correspondent to win two Peabody Awards in the same year. One wasfor a story on the vulnerability to computer hackers of crucial infrastructureslike the power grid, and the other for a story examining the enormous sums ofmoney spent p