Barry Petersen is a CBS News Correspondent. [1] He has reported on wars, natural disasters, Paris fashions, the fading popularity of Welsh choirs, and the return of American jazz to Shanghai, China. [1] He has worked for CBS News for more than three decades. [1]
After attending high school in Sidney, Montana, [2] he studied at Northwestern University’s [3] Medill School of Journalism. [4] [5]
Petersen wrote about his wife's diagnosis with early onset of Alzheimer's disease in 2005, in a work entitled "Jan's Story", [6] which was published in June 2010. [1] [7]
Jan was also a CBS News journalist, [1] reporting from both Japan and the former Soviet Union for CBS News Radio, CBS News Sunday Morning, and the CBS Weekend News. [8]