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Andrew Kirtzman (born 1961) was a political reporter and anchor for six years at WCBS-TV (CBS 2) in New York City until April 2008. He is the author of Betrayal: The Life and Lies of Bernie Madoff HarperCollins (August 11, 2009) ISBN 0061870765 about Bernard Madoff's $50 billion Ponzi scheme.

Kirtzman was born and raised in Manhattan's Lower East Side. He graduated from Saint Ann's School in 1978. He attended the University of Pennsylvania and received a journalism degress from New York University.

At WCBS-TV he hosted the Sunday morning political program Kirtzman & Co., which featured interviews with politicians and reporters. Prior to WCBS-TV, he worked for seven years at the New York City cable news channel NY1 as a senior political reporter, where he also was co-host of Inside City Hall. He also worked for four years at the New York Daily News as a political reporter covering City Hall. He also served as a contributing editor for New York Magazine and authored its biweekly Field Memo column during the city's 1997 mayoral race and the state's 1998 U.S. Senate race. He previously had been an investigative reporter for the Houston Post and the city editor of the Hudson Dispatch in New Jersey.

Mr. Kirtzman was married on March 9, 2005 in Toronto, Canada to Kyle Froman, a member of the New York City Ballet corps de ballet "Andrew Kirtzman, Kyle Froman" New York Times, 13 March 2005.He attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he was the Executive Editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian, the student newspaper, and the Sphinx Senior Society and received a B.A. in journalism from New York University.

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