Al Jaffe
Al Jaffe is ESPN's vice-president of talent (official title: Vice-President of Talent Negotiation and Production Recruitment), a position he has held since 1996. He was also one of the judges on all three seasons of the network's reality series Dream Job.
A native of Pittsfield, Massachusetts and a 1968 graduate of Emerson College, where he majored in Mass Communications, Jaffe previously served as a news producer at WHDH-TV and WCVB-TV in Boston, and as News Director at KNTV-TV San Jose, California, and KOVR-TV in Sacramento.
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He was elected to the Emerson College Board of Trustees in 2007 and was inducted into the WERS (Emerson College Radio Station) Hall of Fame in 2011.
[edit] Family
His daughter Pam Jaffe also attended Emerson College and graduated in May 2007.
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- 1978 – Emmy Award, Boston Chapter of National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Best Newscast (WCVB-TV)
- 1986 – Radio Television News Directors Association Award, Regional Investigative Reporting (KOVR)
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