Jeffrey Kofman

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Jeffrey Kofman (born 1959 in Toronto), is an Canadian television journalist working in the United States.

He is a Miami-based correspondent for ABC News, covering Latin America and the Caribbean.

Kofman was among the first journalists to report from the war in Afghanistan in 2001. In 2003, Kofman was in the news himself after The Washington Post's Lloyd Grove reported that someone in the White House had sent internet blogger Matt Drudge a tip that Kofman was Canadian and gay after Kofman did a report about sinking morale among U.S. soldiers in Iraq. Drudge ran the story under the headline "ABC NEWS REPORTER WHO FILED TROOP COMPLAINT STORY IS CANADIAN."

Kofman arrived at ABC from CBS News, where he was a correspondent in the network's New York City bureau. At CBS, he reported for the CBS Evening News and Sunday Morning. Before joining CBS, Kofman was a correspondent for CBC Television in Toronto. During his 11 years at the CBC, he was also host of an award-winning weekly current affairs program, anchor of the CBC's Toronto newscast, a network radio host, and sub-anchor for the CBC's flagship nightly network newscast, The National.

He has won several major Canadian journalism awards, including the National Media Human Rights Award for a groundbreaking 1987 CBC documentary on AIDS discrimination. He began his television career at the Global Television Network in 1982.

He was co-founder of the Canadian affiliate of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association.

Education

Mr. Kofman graduated from Upper Canada College in Toronto and Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.

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