John Stossel

Stossel is a figure people sort themselves over, but I respect the spine even when I question the conclusions. From Chicago Heights to Princeton to a long run across ABC, Fox Business and Reason TV, he earned the hardware first, a George Polk Award, a Peabody and an Emmy, before swinging hard into libertarian commentary. What I value is the refusal to grow comfortable: rather than resting on consumer-reporting credibility, he kept poking at conventional wisdom and asking whether the received story was actually true. You need not agree with his economics to admire a reporter who made doubt his lifelong habit. At his age, that is real persistence.

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Name (English)

John Stossel

Name (Japanese)

ジョン・ストッセル

Reading

じょん・すとっせる

Born

March 6, 1947 (age 79)

Origin

Chicago Heights, Illinois, United States

Occupation

television presenter / journalist / writer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Boar

High school

New Trier High School

University

Princeton University

Awards & achievements

• 1977 George Polk Award
• Peabody Awards
• 1987 News and Documentary Emmy Awards

• Official sitehttps://johnstossel.com
• Xhttps://x.com/JohnStossel
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Stossel
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E3%83%83%E3%82%BB%E3%83%AB
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q579324

Tags

• Illinois
• television presenter
• journalist
• writer

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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