Barry Petersen is a CBS News Correspondent.
[1] He has reported on wars, natural disasters, Paris fashions, the fading popularity of Welsh choirs, and the return of American jazz to Shanghai, China.
[1] He has worked for CBS News for more than three decades.
[1] After attending high school in Sidney, Montana,[2] he studied at Northwestern University’s [3] Medill School of Journalism.
[4][5] Petersen wrote about his wife's diagnosis with early onset of Alzheimer's disease in 2005, in a work entitled "Jan's Story",[6] which was published in June 2010.