Jim Bittermann Biography
Jim Bittermann is an American journalist working as CNN’s Senior International Correspondent. He has covered the death of Princess Diana in 1997, NATO airstrikes on Kosovo in 1998, the earthquake in Turkey in 1999, and the World Cup soccer tournaments, among other stories, since joining CNN in 1996.
How old is Jim Bittermann? – Age
Jim was born in Joliet, Illinois, the United States of America.
Jim Bittermann Wife – Family
His first wife Patricia Thompson Emmy-winning television producer died in 2010. Dr. Tess Bittermann, the couple’s only child, works as a gastroenterologist at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia. Bittermann married Mary Jean Lowe, a counselor at the American School of Paris, in April 2017.
Jim Bittermann Net Worth
Bittermann has an estimated net worth of $3 million.
Jim Bittermann Education
Bittermann graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Southern Illinois University, where he was named Journalism Alumnus of the Year in 1989. He was honored with the university’s Alumni Achievement Award in 2000.
Jim Bittermann Salary
Bittermann earns an annual salary of $1 million.
Jim Bittermann Career
From 1990 to 1996, Bittermann worked as a Paris news correspondent for ABC News. He covered a wide range of international events during his time at ABC, including the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Gulf War, the Middle East peace process, and the United States deployment in Somalia. Betrayed in Blood, a PrimeTime Live report on the French AIDS-tainted blood scandal, and two half-hour special reports for Nightline with Ted Koppel, A Perfect Messiah, and The Fashion Conspiracy, were among his long-form projects at ABC.
Bittermann worked for NBC News as a European correspondent from 1978 to 1990. From 1978 to 1979, he was based in Rome and covered two papal transitions as well as Pope John Paul II’s travels. He lived in Paris from 1980 to 1990. In Eastern Europe, Northern and Western Africa, the Middle East, the Philippines, Japan, and the Soviet Union, he covered many of the decade’s major international stories.
For his coverage of the Sudan famine in 1988, he won a national news Emmy Award. Bittermann previously worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s newsmagazine as a correspondent and producer in Toronto. After a year at WQED-TV, a public television station in Pittsburgh, he worked as a reporter for WKYC-TV in Cleveland, Ohio, from 1973 to 1975.
Bittermann traveled with the national presidential campaign staff of Indiana Senator Birch Bayh and Maine Senator Edmund Muskie in 1971-1972. After a year as a newspaper reporter with the Waukegan News-Sun in Waukegan, Illinois, he began his broadcast journalism career in 1970 at WTMJ-TV in Milwaukee.
Among his many accolades is a CableACE Award for CNN’s coverage of the Zaire civil war. He has served on the jury for the French film competition Les Lumieres de Paris and as a panel moderator at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Bittermann has worked as an assistant adjunct professor of communication at the American University of Paris since 1998, where he teaches courses in broadcast news and documentary film, among other things.