Christof Putzel Biography
Christof Putzel is an American journalist and Travel Channel correspondent. He has previously worked as a correspondent for Al Jazeera America’s news magazine America Tonight as well as Current TV’s investigative documentary series Vanguard.
Age
He was born in 1979, in Washington, D.C., United States of America. Christof is 45 years old as of 2023.
Education
Christof has an undergraduate at Connecticut College.
Family
Putzel is a third-generation newspaper reporter. His father, Michael Putzel, covered the Vietnam War and the White House for the Associated Press. Ann Blackman, his mother, worked as a Time magazine correspondent and Associated Press reporter. His grandfather, Samuel G. Blackman, was a senior editor at the Associated Press.
Wife
Christof married Julia Taft, a great-granddaughter of the late Republican Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio, and a great-great-granddaughter of President and Chief Justice William Howard Taft. They got divorced in 2014.
Career
Christopher began his production career while a student at Connecticut College and produced his first film, “Left Behind,” about a Kenyan AIDS orphan. The film won more than ten awards at the festival, including the Student Academy Award, the International Documentary Society David Wolper Award, and the HBO Films Award for Best Student Film. Christof joined Current TV in 2005, becoming one of the network’s first employees. The following year, he received his first Emmy nomination for his reporting on the rise and fall of the Islamic Courts Union in Mogadishu, Somalia. He traveled deep into the jungles of the Democratic Republic of Congo to report on the exploitation of child gold miners, dangerously crossing the Mexico/US border with migrant workers into US territory where he set up camp. He discovered the bodies of more than two dozen refugees who drowned while trying to escape the crisis in Somalia.
His documentary “Hate Russia”, about the violence committed against immigrants by neo-Nazi skinheads in Moscow, won Columbia University’s Alfred I. Dupont Award and the prestigious Livingston Prize for International Reporting. He received his third Emmy nomination for Lost in Democracy, a documentary about the first democratic elections in the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan. In 2012, the movie Sex, Lies and Cigarettes, about the “Indonesian smoking baby” Aldi, went viral after it exposed Philip Morris’ business practices in developing countries. He won the Overseas Press Club Award and the Prism Award and was nominated for an Emmy Award. In 2013 Christophe received his second title from Alfred I. DuPont Columbia University Award for “Arming the Mexican Cartels,” a documentary about the arms trade from the United States to Mexico. When TV Now was sold to Al Jazeera Media in 2013, Putzel became a senior correspondent for the network’s news anchor, USA Tonight.
Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of 2 million dollars.