Andy Court is a former newspaper reporter and magazine editor who has been producing for 60 Minutes for the past three years. A graduate of Yale University (1983), he worked for the Concord Monitor, in Concord, New Hampshire, and later for The Jerusalem Post, where he covered the first Palestinian uprising. As editorial director of The American Lawyer magazine, he led a team of reporters investigating the quality of legal representation provided to indigent defendants. He began his television career as an associate producer for 60 Minutes and then as a producer at NBC, where he co-produced “Children of the Harvest,” an hour-long documentary about the problem of child labor in American agriculture. The report won an Emmy Award in 1998. “The Cost of Living” – about the plight of Americans without health insurance – won the Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism in 2001. He also co-produced the 2007 Loeb-award-winning story, “The Mother of All Heists,” an investigation of corruption in the Iraqi government.
