Career
Cafferty started his career in Reno, Nevada in 1960. In the mid-1970s he hosted a daytime talk show "Cafferty & Company" in Kansas City. He became the news director and co-anchor for the 6 o'clock and 10 o'clock news at WHO-TV in Des Moines, Iowa. In 1977, Cafferty began to anchor national and local programs in New York including Strictly Business, Live at Five and the Scarborough-Cafferty Report. He remained with WNBC-TV for eleven years and anchored Strictly Business until 1989. From 1989 to 1992 Cafferty was an anchor for WNYW-TV's Newsline New York and News at 7 on Fox 5. In the 1990s, Cafferty became a business reporter during his 1992–1998 tenure as a News at 10 anchor on New York's local WB-11 network (WPIX-TV).
In the summer of 2005, Cafferty joined The Situation Room, CNN's weekday afternoon newscast. Cafferty also formerly co-anchored CNN's weekday morning broadcast, American Morning. On The Cafferty File, his nightly segment on The Situation Room, he offers commentary and personal opinions.
In October 2006, Cafferty hosted a five-part miniseries on CNN titled Broken Government detailing problems with the two political parties, government bureaucracy and the federal court system. Viewer e-mail messages replaced the news crawl that usually appears on the bottom of the screen.
Cafferty has earned many distinctions in his career, including the Edward R. Murrow Award, an Emmy award and the New York Associated Press State Broadcasters Award.
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