Charles Jaco

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American journalist

title: "Charles Jaco" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["university-of-chicago-alumni", "columbia-university-alumni", "american-radio-reporters-and-correspondents", "american-television-reporters-and-correspondents", "cnn-people", "writers-from-missouri", "american-political-commentators", "american-columnists", "1950-births", "living-people", "accuracy-disputes-from-july-2010", "war-correspondents-of-the-gulf-war"] description: "American journalist" topic_path: "society/education" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Jaco" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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birth_placePoplar Bluff, Missouri, U.S.
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educationUniversity of Chicago (1973)
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|name = Charles Jaco |image = |landscape = |alt = |caption = |birth_date =
|birth_place = Poplar Bluff, Missouri, U.S. |death_date = |death_place = |death_cause = |resting_place = |resting_place_coordinates = |burial_place = |burial_coordinates = |education = University of Chicago (1973) Columbia University (M.S., 1976) |occupation = Journalist; writer; commentator |employer = WXRT, NBC Radio, CNN; KMOX, KTVI, KTRS, St. Louis American |organization = |known_for = The Jaco Report |notable_works = |awards = |website = |footnotes = Charles Jaco (born August 21, 1950) is an American journalist and author, best known for his coverage of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and the ensuing Gulf War. Jaco was born in Poplar Bluff, Missouri.

He graduated from the University of Chicago in 1973 and earned a master's degree from Columbia University in 1976. In 1976, he began his broadcast career with WXRT radio in Chicago, Illinois.

He worked for NBC Radio (identified on air as "C.D. Jaco") from 1979 until 1988, winning a Peabody Award in 1980 for a report on the religious right. In 1987, he was badly beaten by the security forces of Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega. In late 1988, he became a correspondent for CNN. In 1989, while covering allegations of electoral fraud by the Panamanian government, Jaco was visited by vigilantes of Noriega. He fled the country with the aid of the U.S. military. While covering the Gulf War for CNN in 1991, he proposed to fellow CNN correspondent Pat Neal. He left CNN in 1994 and joined KMOX.

He authored Dead Air, a novel about the Gulf War, and Live Shot, a novel set in Cuba.

In October 2010, Jaco was replaced by J.C. Corcoran at KTRS. In August 2012 Jaco interviewed then U.S. Representative and senatorial candidate Todd Akin on The Jaco Report in which Akin controversially claimed that women rarely become pregnant from "legitimate rape." Jaco left KTVI in 2014. Jaco writes regular columns for the St. Louis American.

References

References

  1. (September 14, 2006). "Charles Jaco". Fox2 St. Louis.
  2. Charles Jaco
  3. Salter, Jim. (April 20, 1995). "Jaco Goes Home to Talk Radio". [[Chicago Sun-Times]].
  4. (2003). "News From Abroad". Columbia University Press.
  5. Kubasik, Ben. (April 3, 1991). "UNEXPECTED FAME FOR ARTHUR KENT AND CHARLES JACO The News Guys on the Block". [[Newsday]].
  6. (March 3, 2010). "Charges Dropped Against Charles Jaco Following Dust Up with 'Tea Bagger'".
  7. (October 6, 2010). "Used Condoms Can't Keep Charles Jaco Off Air, but KTRS Can; Jaco Replaced by JC Corcoran". The Riverfront Times.
  8. (August 23, 2012). "Backstory: the reporter who interviewed Akin". Columbia Journalism Review.
  9. (February 28, 2016). "KTVI's Charles Jaco leaving the news station". St. Louis Post Dispatch.
  10. [http://www.stlamerican.com/news/columnists/charles_jaco/ Columnist Charles Jaco at the St. Louis American]

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