Jim Clancy (journalist)
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Jim Clancy | |
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| Nationality | American |
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Jim Clancy is an American broadcast journalist, best known as a former correspondent and anchor on CNN International, based in Atlanta, Georgia. He formerly anchored several daily CNN news reports including 'The World Today' and 'The Brief.'
Career
From 1982 to 1996, Clancy was a CNN international correspondent in the Beirut, Frankfurt, Rome and London bureaus. During this time, he won the George Polk Award for his reporting on the genocide in Rwanda, the DuPont-Columbia Award for coverage of the war in Bosnia an Emmy Award for reporting on the famine and international intervention in Somalia and the A.H. Boerma Award for his coverage of global food and hunger issues. Clancy joined CNN in 1981 as a national correspondent after an extensive, award-winning career in local radio and television in Denver, Colorado and San Francisco, California. In 2012, Clancy contributed to CNN'S Emmy Award winning coverage of the resignation of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.[1][2] The Emmy for "Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story" was one of two awards CNN received in 2012.
In January 2015, Clancy made a series of tweets about Israel and the Charlie Hebdo shooting.[3] In these tweets, he criticized Israel supporters. On January 16, 2015, CNN announced Clancy had retired from the network after nearly 34 years.[3][4]
References
- ^ http://www.emmyonline.org/mediacenter/_pdf/news_33rd_winners_v04.pdf
- ^ "33rd Annual News and Documentary Emmy Award Winners" (PDF).
- ^ a b Steel, Emily (17 January 2015). "Anchor Leaves CNN After Tweets". The New York Times. Retrieved 18 January 2015.
- ^ Joyella, Mark (16 January 2015). "Jim Clancy Leaves CNN After 34 Years". Adweek. Retrieved 18 January 2015.
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