Mark Strassmann

(CBS News) 

Mark Strassmann was named CBS News Transportation correspondent in August 2011. He has been a CBS News correspondent since January 2001, and is based in the Atlanta bureau.

Strassmann has covered major domestic stories, as well as some of the biggest international stories during that time, primarily for the "CBS Evening News." He reported on the BP Oil Spill for four months, Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, the Terry Schiavo right-to-die story, church burnings in the South, the shuttle program, Colorado wildfires and Texas floods, the raising of the Hunley submarine, the Worldcom accounting debacle, the aftermath of Sept. 11 and the trials of aging Ku Klux Klan members in the Birmingham church bombing. He has also made multiple trips to Iraq since 2003.

Strassmann was the CBS News embedded correspondent with the 101st Airborne, reporting from the frontlines for seven weeks as United States forces swept from Kuwait into Iraq. He was the first television correspondent worldwide to break the news of the fragging incident within that unit. Strassmann was staying in the tent just behind the one in which two U.S. servicemen were killed in the attack and reported live from Iraq soon after it happened. He also covered the fall of Haitian President Aristide, among other major international stories.

Strassmann was a national correspondent for NBC News Channel, the network's affiliate news service, in its Atlanta bureau (1997-2001). He also contributed reports to "Today" and other NBC network broadcasts. Before that, Strassmann was assigned to NBC News Channel's Miami bureau (1995-97). During that time, he reported extensively in the United States and abroad on major stories, including the Branch Davidian standoff near Waco, the Columbine school shootings, a total of eight Democratic and Republican National Conventions, the Atlanta Olympic Games, the Elian Gonzalez story, the Pope's trip to Cuba, Princess Diana's funeral, the 50th anniversary of D-Day and the 2000 Bush-Gore election story in Florida.

Prior to that, Strassmann was a reporter for WFLA-TV Tampa (1987-95), WTVT-TV Columbus, Ohio (1985-87), KMOL-TV San Antonio (1985) and WSAZ-TV Charleston, W.V. (1982-85). He began his career as an associate producer at WCVB-TV Boston (1980-82).

Strassmann is the recipient of more than 20 journalism awards, including a 2002 Emmy Award for CBS News' coverage of the D.C. sniper story, an Ohio State Award and two regional Emmy Awards.

He was born in New York City and grew up in Boston. Strassmann was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1980 with a B.A. in American government. He is married to WSB-TV Atlanta anchor Linda Stouffer. They have two children.

[InsideBanks]

Your Story about the lady indistress in Florida is (in my opinion) a completely pre-meditated result of Bank CEOs and government Greed.
I was the last person with integrity in banking serving as the VP for businesses to get loans to...
1. Start up new
2. Buy out retiring business owners
3. Purchase existing, profitable businesses.
My Credentials Are Beyond Reproach. Google 2 words.. Bill Lember
Did you Know that Bank of America paid back its TARP loan early and with interest because it never even touched the $30 Billion because it never needed it? Then everyone in government, including the Fed Reserve Captain, claimed success?
We avoided a meltdown because of our fed reserve captain. He's a student of 1929. He deserves applause for stepping in and taking control of what a current, at that moment, standing president could not even conprehend.

[rwnorris]

Great story tonight about the Grandmother and Grandson looking for work.

I just wonder where we are going. I for example am 61 disabled, and confined to my home now for 14 years with my wife caring for me. She worked for 1-800 Flowers til Christmas Eve Day, when she got a call. She had had two surgeries on her shoulder this year and was on disability leave. Oh, now her job is gone, like 1400 other Flowers jobs moved to the Phillipines and Guatamalla this past year, and so is her HEALTH INSURANCE. Now at age 57, she has joined the unemployed and uninsured with a husband that is confined to home.

The lady teared up and said it was one step at a time, well that is true unless someone knocks you feet out from under you!

Find and report on more people out there. We live in a community of 100 with zero jobs, so we are not of interest to the big city people, but we get just a hungry and do not have the pantry to hit up for food, nor the shelters for a dry roof. Keep hitting America and try to look for the small problems, they often turn out to be the hidden normal in this country.

That or do a hard pressed report on jobs going out of the country without a care. Most people don't care until it is there job that is gone.

Thanks and keep up the good work.

Rodger Norris
Timberon, NM

[ZarpZ]

Hello Mark,

My name is Diptesh Patel, and I'm working on a website that will be able to help patients with terminal cancer. I'm writing to you because of the great piece that you wrote about Randy Pausch.

The goal of my website is to help patients create legacy material. We store the information, and send it out to loved ones in the future. The patients get to select the exact date and time that the message is sent out on their behalf. It's almost like sending a 'message in a bottle'.

I'm attaching a clip of a 2 minute video that demonstrates the power of such a tool. I know that you have been through much and you have provided the world with so much great work. I would love to get your thoughts on our website and video.

I know that you probably receive a ton of messages like this. I'm only asking for 2 minutes of time for you to view our video and for a couple of brief thoughts on the value of our website for patients and especially their loved ones. We are working with Northwestern and the NIH on a clinical trial testing ZarpZ, but I think your feedback will be just as valuable.

http://www.youtube.com/user/zarpzdotcom

Thanks in advance for any time that you can spare. I'm happy to share more information with you, but wanted to keep this brief, so that I was respectful of your time.

Dr. Patel

[InsideBanks]

If there were no more Dr. Patels in my country, The United States Of America, I'd trust the medical profession in this country. The last one I met wanted to go invasive on me for a problem that was completely cured by an expensive medication for 5 days. India and Pakistan are not OUR freinds.

[banjoles]

mark...just saw your story about the price of gas not going down as fast as the price of a barrel of oil. what you did not mention in your story is the underlying truth.....the gas stations and oil companies make a higher profit when the price of gas goes down than when it goes up.
when the price goes up 10 cents a gallon...they raise the price right away. BUT, when it goes down 10 cents, they only lower it little by little, rather than all at once. i know someone who owns several gas sations and they constantly monitor the price of oil to determine when they should buy gas to fill their tanks. They love it when the price goes down. it's an out and out scam. in addition...whenever the price of a barrel of oil changes....that il doesnt come to the U.S. for several weeks. There probably should be some regulation that forbids stations from raising or lowering prices until the new priced oil in delivered.

[InsideBanks]

Are you actualy in the United States? Seriously?