High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Jack Cafferty (born December 14, 1942) is a CNN commentator and occasional host of specials. In the summer of 2005, Cafferty joined The Situation Room. Cafferty started his career in Reno, Nevada in 1960. He became the news director and co-anchor for the 6 o'clock and 10 o'clock news at WHO-TV in Des Moines, Iowa. In 1977, Cafferty began to anchor national and local programs in New York including Strictly Business, Live at Five and the Scarborough-Cafferty Report. He remained with WNBC-TV for eleven years and anchored Strictly Business until 1989. From 1989 to 1992 Cafferty was an anchor for WNYW-TV's Newsline New York and News at 7 on Fox 5. In the 1990s, Cafferty became a business reporter during his 1992-1998 tenure as a News at 10 anchor on New York's local WB-11 network (WPIX-TV).