Andrew Kirtzman

Andrew Kirtzman (born c. 1962) was a political reporter and anchor for six years at WCBS-TV (CBS 2) in New York City until April 2008. He is the author of Betrayal: The Life and Lies of Bernie Madoff about Bernard Madoff's $50 billion Ponzi scheme.

Kirtzman was born and raised in Manhattan's Lower East Side. He graduated from Saint Ann's School in 1978. He attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he was the Executive Editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian, the student newspaper, and the Sphinx Senior Society and received his B.A. in journalism from New York University.

At WCBS-TV he hosted the Sunday morning political program Kirtzman & Co., which featured interviews with politicians and reporters. Prior to WCBS-TV, he worked for seven years at NY1 as a senior political reporter, where he also co-hosted Inside City Hall. He also worked for four years at the New York Daily News as a political reporter covering City Hall. He served as a contributing editor for New York Magazine and authored its biweekly Field Memo column during the city's 1997 mayoral race and the state's 1998 U.S. Senate race. He previously had been an investigative reporter for the Houston Post and the city editor of the Hudson Dispatch in New Jersey.

Kirtzman was married on March 9, 2005 in Toronto to Kyle Froman, a member of the New York City Ballet corps de ballet.

Fire Island interests

Kirtzman was formerly owner/publisher of the Fire Island Villager, a weekly newspaper.^{[citation needed]} In 2010, he was one of a group of investors who bought about three quarters of the businesses in Fire Island Pines from Eric von Kuersteiner and Anthony Roncalli, reportedly for roughly $20 million. The other investors include Matt Blesso, a real estate investor, and Seth Weissman, an investment banker.