Guests: Jim Sciutto RSS

2004:

  1. A discussion about the Iraq war one year later
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    32 min
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Jim Sciutto is an American journalist. He is ABC News’ Senior Foreign correspondent, based in London. He has reported from more than 30 countries in Europe, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, including twelve assignments in Iraq. Sciutto contributes to all ABC News broadcasts and platforms, including “World News with Charles Gibson,” “Nightline” and “Good Morning America.”

Sciutto won Emmy awards in 2004 and 2005 for best story in a regularly scheduled newscast, covering northern Iraq for “Iraq: Where Things Stand.” He was nominated for another Emmy in 2005 for outstanding coverage of a breaking news story for “Crisis in Beslan”. He also reported from Poland as part of ABC’s Dupont Award-winning coverage of the death of Pope John Paul II.

Sciutto was the first television reporter to interview Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Abdullah and one of a handful of journalists allowed inside an Iranian nuclear plant in 2005. During the Iraq war, Sciutto was the only reporter embedded with the U.S. Special Forces. In 2002, he was appointed Associate Fellow of Pierson College at Yale. He was also selected as a term member of the Council of Foreign Relations in June 2002.

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