Monday, February 12, 2007
Jim Acosta to Join CNN as General Assignment Correspondent
Source: CNN Press Release Jim Acosta, who has covered nearly every major news story over the last five years for CBS News, will join CNN as a general assignment correspondent beginning in March, it was announced today by Jon Klein, president of CNN/U.S. Acosta will be based in the network’s New York bureau, contributing to CNN’s weekday and weekend programming.“Jim’s experience in covering major national and world events and his irrepressible drive to excel make him an outstanding addition to CNN,” Klein said.
Acosta has been a CBS News correspondent since February 2003. Originally based in New York , he later relocated to the CBS bureau in Atlanta . He contributed primarily to the CBS Evening News and has covered stories including the Iraq war from Baghdad , the 2004 presidential campaign of Sen. John Kerry, Hurricane Katrina and the blackout of 2003.
Previously, he was a correspondent for CBS Newspath, the network’s 24-hour news service, from 2001-2003 and was based in Dallas and Chicago during that time. Acosta covered the Pennsylvania miner rescue, the Washington, D.C.-area sniper story and the Andrea Yates trial, among other stories.
Before that, he was a reporter and substitute anchor for WBBM-TV, the CBS-owned station in Chicago from 2000 to 2001; a reporter for KTVT-TV, the CBS-owned station in Dallas , from 1998 to 2000 and a reporter and substitute anchor for WBIR-TV in Knoxville , Tenn. , from 1995 to 1998. While in Knoxville , he earned a Best of Gannett Award for investigative reporting.
Acosta graduated cum laude from James Madison University with a degree in mass communications and a minor in political science.
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