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Associate Producer
60 Minutes-CBS News
Magalie Laguerre-Wilkinson is currently an Associate Producer for the legendary CBS newsmagazine, 60 Minutes. Her work has covered everything from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans to the first exclusive interview French President Nicolas Sarkozy granted to an American news program. Her work mainly focuses on foreign affairs, but it has covered topics as diverse as the search for the Ivory Bill Woodpecker in the swamps of Arkansas to an extensive profile of NBA star LeBron James to a portrait of popular music sensation Wyclef Jean.
Before joining 60 Minutes, Mrs. Laguerre-Wilkinson was a producer for the NBC News program NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw. She produced daily stories as well as investigative pieces for that program. She was nominated for Emmy Awards for both the 9/11 Attacks on America and the Columbia Shuttle disaster. She was also the coordinating producer for Tom Brokaw’s interview of Jacques Chirac for the 60th anniversary of D-Day.
Mrs. Laguerre-Wilkinson has lived in Haiti, France and the U.S. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Marist College, earned her International Baccalaureate from the United Nations International School, and attended the Lycée Français de New York as well as l’Ecole des Roches in Normandy, France.
She lives in New York City with her husband, Bruce Wilkinson and daughters Juliette and Joséphine.
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