Robert Halderman

Robert Joel "Joe" Halderman is an American television news writer, director, producer, and convicted felon. Halderman's journalistic career began in the early 1980s, when he was a producer on the CBS Morning Show with Diane Sawyer and Bill Kurtis. In 1986 he produced the CBS specials AIDS Hits Home and 48 Hours on Crack Street. He became a foreign reporter who travelled to more than 70 countries, and was responsible for war reportage from nations such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, and Bosnia. He was stationed in London for 12 years, throughout most of the 1990s, from where he reported on events in the Soviet Union and later Russia.In 1992 he wrote and produced the CBS special Somalia: A Country Is Dying. In February 1998 he worked on CBS coverage of the Olympic Winter Games XVIII. During the 2000s, Halderman worked on domestic shows for CBS, He produced the show Flashpoint in 2007, and from 2005–2009, he was also a producer of the CBS true crime journalism series 48 Hours, including episodes such as Out of the Shadows (2005), about a man who for 18 years was wrongly suspected of being the serial killer Dennis Rader, also known as the BTK Killer; and Virginia Tech: Anatomy of a