Ian Pannell Biography
Ian Pannell is an American journalist from the United States working as the Senior Foreign Correspondent at ABC News stationed in the London Bureau.
How old is Ian Pannell? – Age
He was born in the United States. His date of birth is not revealed.
Ian Pannell Family
Ian’s parents’ identities are still unknown. It is also unknown whether he has any siblings.
Ian Pannell Wife
He is married and the couple has three boys; Alfie Pannell, Charlie Pannell, and Jack Pannell. His youngest son, Alfie Pannell, will graduate from high school in June 2019, and his oldest is a University of Warwick graduate.
Ian Pannell Salary
He earns an annual salary of $130,106.
Ian Pannell Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $17 million.
Ian Pannell Career
Pannell spent 20 years at the BBC before joining ABC, where he covered some of the most incredible and compelling stories in recent history. His work has taken him all over the world, with assignments in North America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. He was the first journalist to enter Kabul after the Taliban left in 2001, and he returned in 2008 to cover the push for democratic change in the country. Pannell spent three years reporting from Syria as a civilian protest movement devolved into civil war, making more than a dozen trips to rebel-held areas. He reported on the Arab Spring uprisings in Egypt, Bahrain, and Libya, as well as the war in Libya.
For the past two years, he has reported from the front lines of Crimea during the Ukraine/Russia conflict, Gaza during the Hamas/Israel conflict, Nepal following the 2015 earthquake, and on the ongoing migrant crisis and refugee exodus.
Pannell has investigated enterprise reports in both the United States and Latin America. In the United States, he covered the heroin epidemic, the lives of homeless families, the trafficking of children into a lifetime of forced sex slavery, and the rise of gun crime in Chicago. While in Latin America, he covered the drug war as it affected Columbia’s cocaine trade. Many major journalism awards have been bestowed upon him for his reporting. He won an International Emmy for his work covering the conflict between Hezbollah and Israel, a Royal Television Society Award for International News Coverage for his 2013 report on rebel-held areas in Syria, and an International Press Award for his enterprise stories on displaced families in Syria. Pannell has received two additional Emmys and two Peabody awards for his reporting excellence. He also has a number of other honors for his commitment to honest, authentic storytelling.