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Jim Sciutto

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Jim Sciutto

Anchor and Chief National Security Correspondent, CNN
Jim Sciutto

Jim Sciutto is CNN's chief national security correspondent and co-anchor of CNN Newsroom airing Monday through Friday from 9 to 11 a.m. ET alongside Poppy Harlow. He reports and provides analysis across the network's programs and platforms on all aspects of U.S. national security including foreign policy, the military, intelligence community, and the State Department. He has reported from more than 50 countries across the globe including dozens of assignments from inside Iraq, Afghanistan, and Iran. Sciutto is the author of several books, including The Shadow War, published in 2019, The Madman Theory: Trump Takes on the World, published in 2020, both by Harper Collins. His first book, Against Us: The New Face of America's Enemies in the Muslim World, analyzes the driving forces behind Islamic radicalization. Among the honors Sciutto's work has earned are Emmy Awards, the Edward R. Murrow Award, the George Polk Award, and the White House Correspondents Association's Merriman Smith Award for excellence in presidential coverage. Prior to joining CNN, Sciutto served as ABC News' senior foreign correspondent, based in London, and the Hong Kong-based correspondent for Asia Business News. Sciutto has also served as chief of staff and senior advisor to the U.S. Ambassador to China, Gary Locke. He is a graduate of Yale University, where he studied Chinese history, and was a Fulbright Fellow in Hong Kong. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and an associate fellow at Pierson College at Yale.