Jane Clayson Johnson is an Emmy-winning journalist and author.
Early life and career
Clayson was born April 25, 1967, and spent most of her childhood in Sacramento, California. She played with the Sacramento Youth Symphony and is an accomplished violinist.
She graduated from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, in 1990 with a degree in journalism.
Clayson began her career at KSL-TV in Salt Lake City, Utah (1990–1996). While at KSL, she traveled to China to write and produce a series of stories about American doctors assisting Chinese children with disabilities. Her work there earned a regional Emmy. She also received the Radio and Television News Directors of America’s Edward R. Murrow Award while at KSL.
ABC News
In 1996, Jane Clayson moved to Los Angeles, California, where she worked as a correspondent for
Good Morning America,
World News Tonight, and other
ABC News broadcasts. Her work included coverage of Senator Bob Dole’s 1996 Presidential campaign, the OJ Simpson civil trial, and NATO’s strikes against Kosovo and the resulting refugee crisis in Macedonia.
The Early Show and CBS News
In 1999,
CBS News launched “Operation Glass Slipper,” the widely publicized search for
Bryant Gumbel’s co-host on
The Early Show. On November 1, 1999, Clayson was chosen, and joined Gumbel for the show’s first broadcast. From 1999 to 2002 she anchored
The Early Show through the new Millennium, the inauguration of President George W. Bush, and the attacks on September 11, 2001.
In 2002, Jane Clayson became a correspondent for CBS News. She regularly reported for “Eye on America” segments and contributed to both 48 Hours and The CBS Evening News.
Personal life
In September 2003, Clayson married Mark W. Johnson, a graduate of the
U.S. Naval Academy,
Columbia University (masters in civil engineering and engineering mechanics) and
Harvard Business School. They were first introduced to each other by Jane's sister. Mark had joined
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints not long before when Mark and Jane first met. She left CBS three months later (December 2003) to join her husband in Boston, where he is president and cofounder of the management consulting firm,
Innosight, which he co-founded with
Clayton M. Christensen.
The couple has two young children.
She is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
I Am a Mother!
Clayson occasionally substitutes for host
Tom Ashbrook on the public radio program
On Point, and has produced specials for the
Discovery Channel. She also hosted
BYU TV's coverage of the funeral for
LDS President Gordon B. Hinckley on February 2, 2008.
Her first book, I Am a Mother! was released in March 2007 and chronicles her decision to leave the network news business to have a family. She regularly speaks on the topic at events across the United States.
References
External links
Irene Sege, Clayson Johnson Left It All Behind to Have a Baby," Boston Globe, October 12, 2004. (Accessed March 24, 2007.)
Official CBS News bio. (Accessed March 24, 2007.)
Jane Clayson Johnson, "I Am a Mother," 2006 Conference on the Family, American Mothers, Inc. (Accessed March 24, 2007.)
March for Babies - PSA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ1CsZbjY0g) 2008 March of Dimes
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