- Jim Sciutto
Jim Scuitto is an American journalist.
Biography
Sciutto is a 1992 graduate of
Yale University . Sciutto got his start in television job as moderator and producer of aPublic Broadcasting Service program, "The Student Press," a weekly public affairs talk show aimed at college students. He was Hong Kong correspondent for Asia Business News, covering the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997. He also covered stories in China, Mongolia, Laos, Vietnam, Singapore and South Korea. He joinedABC News in 1998, working in Chicago before moving to Washington to cover the Pentagon. [ [http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=127567] ]Jim Sciutto is now an ABC News Senior Foreign correspondent, based in London. He was the only American journalist to report from inside Myanmar during the government crackdown in the Fall 2007, and the only American television reporter to file from inside Zimbabwe during the election crisis in April 2008. He has reported from more than forty countries in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Honors
* George Polk Award for Television Reporting in 2007 for his undercover reporting inside Myanmar.
* Emmy awards in 2004 and 2005 for best story in a regularly scheduled newscast for his reporting in Iraq. Emmy nominations in 2008 for his reporting inside Myanmar and in 2005 for his reporting in Beslan, Russia during the school siege.
* Fulbright Fellow in Hong Kong from 1993 to 1994.
* Associate Fellow of Pierson College at Yale.
* Selected as a life member of the Council of Foreign Relations in 2008.
Books
* , Random House, 2008
References
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
