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Jim Bittermann is CNN's senior European
correspondent based in Paris. Since joining CNN in 1996, he
has covered the death of Princess Diana in 1997, NATO air
strikes on Kosovo in 1998, the earthquake in Turkey in 1999
and the World Cup soccer championships, among other stories.
He also frequently reports on the travels of Pope John Paul
II.
Bittermann joined CNN from ABC News,
where he was a Paris news correspondent from 1990-1996.
During his years with ABC, he covered a wide range of
international events, including the dissolution of the
Soviet Union, the Gulf War and the Middle East peace process
and U.S. deployment in Somalia. His long-form projects at
ABC included Betrayed in Blood, a report on the French
AIDS-tainted blood scandal for PrimeTime Live and two
half-hour special reports for Nightline with Ted Koppel, A
Perfect Messiah and The Fashion Conspiracy.
From 1978-1990, Bittermann was a
European correspondent for NBC News. Based in Rome from
1978-1979, he covered two Papal transitions and the travels
of Pope John Paul II. From 1980-1990, he was based in Paris.
While there, he reported on many of the decade's major
international stories in Eastern Europe, Northern and
Western Africa, the Middle East, the Philippines, Japan and
the Soviet Union. He received a national news Emmy Award for
his coverage of the 1988 Sudan famine.
Prior to NBC, Bittermann was a
Toronto-based correspondent and producer for the Canadian
Broadcasting Corp.'s newsmagazine. He also worked as a
reporter for WKYC-TV in Cleveland, Ohio, from 1973-1975
after working one year for WQED-TV, a public television
station in Pittsburgh.
In 1971-1972, Bittermann traveled the
national presidential campaign staffs of Sen. Birch Bayh of
Indiana and Sen. Edmund Muskie of Maine. He began his career
in broadcast journalism in 1970 at WTMJ-TV in Milwaukee,
after one year as a newspaper reporter with the Waukegan
News-Sun in Waukegan, Ill.
His many honors include a CableACE
Award for CNN's coverage of the civil war in Zaire. He has
been a panel moderator at the World Economic Forum in Davos,
Switzerland, and a member of the jury for the French film
competition Les Lumieres de Paris. Since 1998, Bittermann
has been adjunct associate professor of communications at
The American University of Paris, teaching courses in
broadcast news and documentary film, among other subjects.
Bittermann earned a bachelor's degree
from Southern Illinois University, which in 1989 named him
the Southern Illinois University's Journalism Alumnus of the
Year. In 2000 he received the university's Alumni
Achievement Award. |
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