[3][citation needed] Klein served as senior producer for CBS's 1990 late-night series America Tonight with Charles Kuralt and Lesley Stahl, as senior producer for the network's coverage of the 1991 Gulf War and later for the documentary Back to Baghdad, in which foreign correspondent Bob Simon returned to the Middle East following his imprisonment by the Iraqis during the war.
As executive vice president of CBS News, Jon oversaw "60 Minutes," restoring the program to ratings and profitability growth through improved relevance.
In 1993, Klein launched the documentary series Before Your Eyes, two-hour movies-of-the-week that explored social issues such as child abuse, AIDS and juvenile delinquency.
In 1997, Klein conceived and executive produced the CBS documentary Inside the Jury Room, in which network television cameras were permitted for the first time to observe deliberations in a criminal trial.
Klein also wrote the story for the TNT Original film Buffalo Soldiers, a 1997 historical drama starring Danny Glover.
[4] c In late 2004, Klein participated in an interview with Bill O'Reilly in which he critically compared the credibility of bloggers covering the Killian documents controversy to that of traditional news media when he said, "It's an important moment, because you couldn't have a starker contrast between the multiple layers of checks and balances, and a guy sitting in his living room in his pajamas writing what he thinks.
Jon is co-founder and co-chairman of TAPP Media, a subscription streaming platform for personalities with super-fan followings that is backed by Discovery Communications.
[11] In early 2005, Klein canceled the long-running program Crossfire and replaced it with The Situation Room, saying that he agreed with Jon Stewart's criticism that the talk show was incendiary and detracting from reasoned political discussion.
Faced with declining ratings in prime time in the year following the Obama inauguration, Klein hired Eliot Spitzer, the former governor of New York, and Kathleen Parker, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the Washington Post, to anchor a new 8 pm program; Parker Spitzer debuted in October 2010, shortly after Klein left the network in September and Ken Jautz, former head of CNN's HLN, became the president of CNN/US.