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TERRY McCARTHY
ABC News Correspondent
Terry McCarthy was named an ABC News correspondent in June 2006. Based in Los Angeles, he primarily reports overseas for all ABC News broadcasts and platforms.
Prior to joining ABC News, Mr. McCarthy served as the Los Angeles bureau chief for TIME Magazine, since 2000. From Los Angeles he covered the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, the submarine sinking of a Japanese tourist boat off Hawaii, polygamy in Utah, the Green River serial killer in Seattle, Los Angeles street gangs and undocumented immigrants crossing the Mexican border. He followed the Lewis and Clark Trail across the Lolo Pass from Montana to Idaho, wrote about conservation of wilderness areas in Asia and saving big cats in Africa, and reported on protecting the desert environment in Arizona.
After 9/11, Mr. McCarthy covered the war in Afghanistan, where he opened TIME's Kabul office and later went to Kuwait to follow the troops into Iraq in 2003. After the fall of Saddam Hussein, he set up TIME's bureau in Baghdad. He returned several times, traveling widely to chronicle how Iraqis' lives were changing after the invasion. His first foray into television came in Iraq, where he was part of the ABC News/TIME team that reported the "Iraq, Where Things Stand" series, which was recognized with two Emmy Awards.
Mr. McCarthy started his journalism career for the Irish Press in Dublin in 1984, before leaving Ireland to cover the civil wars in Central America and the big earthquake in Mexico City in 1985. He then became Southeast Asia correspondent for The Independent of London, covering the war in Cambodia, the military coup in Burma and the opening up of Vietnam. From Bangkok he moved to Tokyo to cover Japan and Korea as The Independent's Tokyo bureau chief.
After moving to New York in 1995, Mr. McCarthy wrote for The New Yorker and the British satirical magazine Punch, before joining TIME magazine, which sent him back to Asia to open up their Shanghai bureau in 1998. As TIME's roving East Asia correspondent, he reported from Beijing, Hong Kong, Manila, Ho Chi Minh City, Dili, Jakarta, Phnom Penh and Saipan, covering the fall of Suharto in Indonesia, the death of Pol Pot, East Timor's independence and the rapid emergence of China as a world power.
Mr. McCarthy was educated in a Benedictine monastery, studying Latin, Greek and philosophy, and he enjoys fishing for trout when he is not working. He resides in Santa Monica with his wife and son.