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Jack is as passionate about reporting today as he was when he first began his broadcast journalism career about 35 years ago.
He covers politics for CBS News Texas and hosts the weekly show Eye On Politics, which airs at 7:30 Sunday morning on CBS News Texas Channel 11 and is streamed through the CBS News app and Pluto TV at the same time.
Jack joined CBS News Texas in September 2003.
He regularly interviews Republican and Democratic elected officials, and interviewed Joe Biden when he ran for President in 2020 and former President Donald Trump in 2018 and when he was a candidate in 2016.
While Jack loves covering politics, he has also worked on investigative stories and covered numerous hurricanes and tornado outbreaks.
He won an Emmy Award for his investigative report on DFW Airport spending, and Texas Associated Press awards for his stories about the previous indictments against former Governor Rick Perry, his coverage of the federal courts in Dallas and his weather coverage.
Before moving to North Texas, Jack reported for television stations in Orlando, Southern California, Fort Myers-Naples and Utica, New York.
He began his journalism career in Syracuse, where he was an anchor and reporter at WHEN-AM.
Jack has been happily married for more than 30 years to Amy, who is a former morning news anchor at radio station KLIF-AM in Dallas. They are the proud parents of two amazing daughters.
Jack and Amy both graduated from the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.
While they still bleed Orange, they love Texas and are happy to call the Lone Star State home.
The icy roads in North Texas aren't stopping these travelers.
Denton County leaders are warning residents about a potential ice storm in the forecast.
School districts across North Texas have cancelled classes Tuesday because of the winter storm warnings.
Families whose loved ones died in the two crashes involving Boeing 737 MAX jets have sharply criticized a deal the U.S. Justice Department struck with the company two years ago.
For this week's episode of Eye on Politics, CBS 11 political reporter Jack Fink also sits down with the mayors of Arlington and Fort Worth to discuss their bids for re-election.
At the federal courthouse in Fort Worth Thursday, the Boeing company pleaded not guilty in a criminal case stemming from the two deadly crashes involving its 737 MAX jets.
On Thursday, the Boeing company will be formally arraigned in a criminal case stemming from two deadly crashes involving its 737 Max jet.
While there has been a lot of water on area roads, both the Denton Police Department and the Denton County Sheriff's Department reported there were no major wrecks as of 6 p.m.
Some state lawmakers are criticizing a recommended plan by the Public Utility Commission of Texas to make the state's electric grid more reliable as the population continues to grow.
This week's episode of Eye on Politics covers the proposed state budget and the efforts by some lawmakers to "rein in" district attorneys who don't enforce Texas law.
In what is an emerging theme at the Texas Capitol, key Republican leaders and lawmakers say they want to "rein-in" district attorneys in Texas who disregard state law.
The Republican majority in the Texas House and Senate have now formally proposed spending billions of dollars in relief from rising property tax bills across the state.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick were both sworn in for their third terms Tuesday morning.
"We're healing, we're not healed. We're getting there. I am permanently changed. I'm much more aware of my surroundings everywhere that I go. I'm much more on edge."
This week's episode of Eye on Politics (original air date: Dec. 12) is all about the start of the 88th Texas Legislature.