Dan Raviv

Who is Dan Raviv?

Dan Raviv is an American journalist. He is a national correspondent for CBS News, heard regularly on the CBS Radio Network. He has also done TV reports from Washington, D.C. on the CBS Evening News.

Raviv is host of a weekly radio magazine show, the CBS News Weekend Roundup.

A New York native and graduate of Harvard, Raviv joined CBS at its all-news radio station in Boston in 1974, moving to WCBS Newsradio in New York in 1976, then to the network radio newsdesk in New York. The start of his on-air career was his assignment in the Tel Aviv bureau, from 1978 to 1980, followed by twelve years as radio correspondent in the London bureau. There, he began making occasional appearances on CBS TV. He worked in the Miami bureau from 1993 to 1997, and then was named National Correspondent in the radio unit at CBS News in Washington.

He is also the author of several books, including the 1990 best seller Every Spy a Prince: The Complete History of Israel's Intelligence Community, a newer history of Israeli espionage and security, Spies Against Armageddon: Inside Israel's Secret Wars, and Friends In Deed: Inside the U.S.-Israel Alliance, all three co-authored with journalist Yossi Melman. Raviv is the sole author of Comic Wars: How Two Tycoons Battled Over the Marvel Comics Empire — and Both Lost. Three of his books are available as e-books. He and Melman have a blog, IsraelSpy.com