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Blitzer grew up in Syracuse, New York. He received a B.A. degree in history from State University of New York at Buffalo in 1970, and an M.A. degree in international relations from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in 1972.
His career in journalism began in 1972, in the Tel Aviv bureau of the ReutersReuters is a company supplying global financial markets and news media with a range of information products and transactional solutions, including real-time and historical market data, research and analytics, financial trading platforms, investment data a news agency. He soon moved to Washington, D.C., where he was White HouseThis page is about the official residence of the President of the USA. For other White Houses see White House (disambiguation). See also 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (musical . The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President correspondent for the Jerusalem Post. In 1990 he was hired by CNN as a military-affairs reporter. His team's coverage of the first Gulf WarSee also: 2003 invasion of Iraq. The Persian Gulf War was a conflict between Iraq and a coalition force of 34 nations led by the United States. The war started with the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in August 1990. The result of the war was a decisive victory in KuwaitThis article is about the country of Kuwait. For the capital city with the same name, see Kuwait City The State of Kuwait is a small oil-rich monarchy on the coast of the Persian Gulf, enclosed by Saudi Arabia in the south and Iraq in the north. Kuwait is won a CableACE award and made him a household name. He became CNN's White House correspondent and later co-anchored the daily show The World Today . His coverage of the 1996 Oklahoma City bombing earned him an Emmy AwardThe Emmy Awards are United States television production awards, similar to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment. There are two types of Emmy Awards, the Daytime Awards and the Primetime Awards. The National Academy of Television Arts & Sci. In 2000This page is about the year 2000. See 2000 AD for the UK comic book, Number 2000 for other uses. 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar), and also the International Year for a Culture of Peace''. Events Y2K passes without the seri, he began hosting the CNN interview programs Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer , and Wolf Blitzer Reports .
Blitzer is the author of two books: Between Washington and Jerusalem: A Reporter's Notebook (Oxford University Press, 1985) and Territory of Lies (Harper and Row, 1989).