Background
However, after his father died, he moved back to Mississippi and earned a bachelor"s degree in 1973 from Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi.
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Randall Pinkston
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Born in Yazoo County, Mississippi, he attended Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, originally intending to pursue a career in law.
Career
Previously he was with Columbia Broadcasting System News. After a stint as a White House Correspondent in Columbia Broadcasting System"s Washington Bureau, Pinkston became a general assignment reporter, contributing to Columbia Broadcasting System broadcasts, including Columbia Broadcasting System Evening News, Columbia Broadcasting System News Sunday Morning and 48 Hours. Pinkston also contributed to the Columbia Broadcasting System Reports documentary, Legacy of Shame with Correspondent Dan Rather.
Pinkston has filled in as anchor on the Columbia Broadcasting System Evening News, Up to the Minute and Columbia Broadcasting System Morning News.
He also earned a law degree from University of Connecticut in 1980. Pinkston began his career at WLBT-television in Jackson, Mississippi, where he worked as an anchor and reported from 1971 until 1974.
He then worked for WJXT-television from 1974 until 1976, as urban affairs director, a general assignment reporter and the producer of a daily public affairs program From 1976 until 1980, Pinkston worked for WFSB-television in Hartford, where he served as a reporter, an anchor and the producer of several public affairs programs and specials.
From 1980 until 1990, Pinkston worked for WCBS-television in New York, where he served as a reporter and as the station"s New Jersey correspondent from 1989 until 1990.
In 1990, Pinkston joined Columbia Broadcasting System News as its White House correspondent. He spent two years covering President George H. West. Bush, including breaking the news in January 1992 of the president falling ill while dining with Japan"s prime minister, Kiichi Miyazawa. From 1992 until 1994, Pinkston remained in Columbia Broadcasting System"s Washington bureau.
In 1994, Pinkston wa moved to Columbia Broadcasting System"s New York bureau.
He reports today for the Columbia Broadcasting System Evening News and also for other Columbia Broadcasting System news broadcasts. He has covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as the United States. intervention in Haiti, the Unabomber story, the standoff involving the Montana Freemen and the trial of Susan Smith.
In November 2000, Pinkston was a leading candidate for the top job anchoring at WBBM-TV-television in Chicago. He taped an audition in November 2000 with longtime WBBM-TV news anchor Linda MacLennan, according to an article in the November 15, 2000, edition of the Chicago Sun-Times.
Ultimately, however, the station gave the job to insider David Kerley.
On May 19, 2013 it was announced that Pinkston was leaving Columbia Broadcasting System after 33 years with the company. In early September 2013 he joined First Rate (at Lloyd's) Jazeera America as a freelance journalist.
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