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Joe Shortsleeve - CBS4
Joe Shortsleeve is chief correspondent for CBS4 News weekdays at 4:00PM, 6:00PM and 11:00PM on CBS4. A native of New England, Shortsleeve is an award-winning journalist who joined the station in September 1990 as a general assignment reporter and back-up anchor. A classic “working anchor,” Shortsleeve was thrown into the national spotlight during the coverage of the tragic small plane crash that killed JFK Jr. in 1999 when he reported live for CBS News from Martha’s Vineyard within hours of reports that the plane was missing. He continued as the reporter on the scene for CBS, CBS4 News and CNN throughout the week’s events.Prior to joining the CBS4 News evening news team, Shortsleeve was co-anchor of News 4 This Morning, the station’s live morning program from September 1994 to August 1998. Before that CBS4 he worked at WLVI-TV in Boston as weekend anchor of “The News at Ten,” and as a reporter since 1984. He also worked as executive producer and anchor for Cablevision News 12 in Westport, Connecticut from 1983 to 1984.Shortsleeve began his broadcasting career as weekend anchor, reporter, and producer at WHBF-TV in Rock Island, Illinois from 1979 to 1980. From 1980 to 1981 he was the - more available