Peter Greenberg

Travel Editor, CBS News - New York, NY

A multiple Emmy Award-winning investigative reporter and producer, Peter Greenberg is America’s most recognized, honored and respected front-line travel news journalist. He is the Travel Editor for CBS News, appearing on CBS Mornings, CBS Evening News, and Sunday Morning, among other broadcast platforms.

Greenberg also produces and co-hosts an ongoing long-running series of acclaimed global public television specials on PBS, Amazon and Apple tv, The Royal Tour, featuring personal, one-on-one journeys through countries with their heads of state. Including the King of Jordan, Prime Ministers of New Zealand and Israel and Presidents of Mexico and Peru, Greenberg’s newest special features the President of Tanzania.

The consummate insider on reporting the travel business as news, Greenberg also hosts the television show, The Travel Detective with Peter Greenberg, airing on Public Television. The series offers  cutting-edge travel information and insider tips you need to know before you ever leave home, plus in-depth reports on the good, bad, and yes, even ugly aspects of travel.

For the past eight years, Greenberg also hosts a series of one hour global television specials called HIDDEN, revealing special destinations and unique experiences that you won’t find in the guidebooks or brochures. Recent HIDDEN shows include Turkey, Poland, and the Canary Islands, Uganda, Belize, Saudia Arabia and Ireland, to name a few. He’s just finished producing Hidden Egypt, which premieres later this year.

On radio, he hosts the nationally syndicated CBS News Eye on Travel, broadcast each week from a different remote location worldwide, and is heard on hundreds of CBS radio stations across the U.S.

Travel Weekly named him one of the most influential people in travel, along with Bill Marriott and Richard Branson. And he was inducted into the U.S. Travel Association’s Hall of Leaders for his contributions to the travel industry. Among his other honors, Greenberg received a News & Documentary Emmy Award as part of the Dateline team for outstanding coverage of a breaking news story, “Miracle on the Hudson.”

Peter Greenberg began his career in journalism as West Coast correspondent for Newsweek in Los Angeles and San Francisco. He won a national Emmy Award (Best Investigative Reporting) for his ABC 20/20 special on the final orphan flight out of Vietnam, “What Happened to the Children?”