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BOB JAMIESON
ABC News Correspondent
Bob Jamieson joined ABC News in 1990 as a correspondent based in New York. He reports for "World News," "Nightline" and other ABC News broadcast and programs.
During more than 30 years as a network television news correspondent, Mr. Jamieson has reported from all seven continents, won five National News Emmys, and was cited for his coverage of 9/11 as part of the ABC News team honored with both Alfred I. duPont and George Foster Peabody Awards.
His assignments with ABC News have varied widely, from the Kurdish refugee crisis in Northern Iraq after the first Gulf War to 9/11, to the Oklahoma City bombing, to the subsequent trials of Timothy McVeigh and the capture of the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski. He has reported on the Asian financial crisis and the Russian economic meltdown in 1998, on national economic and social issues, as well as on diverse stories like the attack on Olympic figure skater Nancy Kerrigan. Mr. Jamieson was the first to report the connection of Tonya Harding to the attack, as well as her decision to plead guilty to state charges in Oregon.
Mr. Jamieson has also reported extensively from the Middle East, beginning with the 1973 Yom Kippur War, later during the 1982 conflict in Lebanon, and subsequently from Iran, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Iraq.
He joined ABC News after a nearly 20-year career at NBC News, where he anchored the early morning programs "NBC News at Sunrise," "Before Hours," a daily business report, and contributed frequently as anchor and correspondent to the "Today" show.
Beginning in 1971, Mr. Jamieson was assigned first as national correspondent in the Chicago bureau, then as White House correspondent form 1975-78, then assigned to London and later still as a senior national correspondent based in New York.
Prior to joining NBC News, he was a local anchor and reporter at KDSK-TV in St. Louis and WBBM-TV in Chicago, where he was honored with an award from Sigma Delta Chi for human interest reporting.
A Native of Illinois, Mr. Jamieson served in the U.S. Navy and attended Knox College, from which he received an honorary doctor of letters degree in 1996.
He and his wife, Janet Garfield, reside in New York with their son, Andrew.