Albert Briganti was born in 1946 in Port Chester, N.Y. and grew up in the Westchester County area. He graduated in 1964 from Stepinac High School in White Plains. In 1968 he received a BA in Philosophy from Saint Joseph’s Seminary and, in 1971, a Masters degree from Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism where he has also served as an adjunct professor. He retired in 2016 after a 40 year career with CBS News where he covered events in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, the near reactor melt down at Three Mile Island, and several presidential campaigns. He was part of the team that created the long running program 48 HOURS, where he was Executive Editor. He remains active as a documentary film maker.
Al and his wife Karen live in Darien. They have grown twin sons and one grandchild. He belongs to the Tokeneke Club and Saint Luke’s Church and frequently travels to Cuba for the work the church does there. In his free time, he likes to engage in gardening, tennis, learning Spanish and doing the daily NY Times crossword puzzle.
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