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American broadcast journalist
Jim Clancy
(born Chicago, December 18, 1955) is an American broadcast journalist, best known as a former correspondent and anchor on
CNN International
. He formerly anchored several CNN news reports, including
The World Today
and
The Brief
, before his resignation following a series of controversial exchanges with other users on Twitter.
Career
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From 1982 to 1996, Clancy was a CNN international correspondent in the
Beirut
, Frankfurt,
Rome
and London bureaus. During this time, he won the
George Polk Award
for his reporting on the genocide in
Rwanda
, the
DuPont-Columbia Award
for coverage of the war in
Bosnia
, an
Emmy Award
for reporting on the famine and international intervention in
Somalia
and the A.H. Boerma Award for his coverage of global food and hunger issues. Clancy joined CNN in 1981 as a national correspondent after an extensive career in local radio and television in
Denver
, Colorado and San Francisco, California.
In 2012, Clancy contributed to CNN'S Emmy Award-winning coverage of the resignation of Egyptian President
Hosni Mubarak
.
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The Emmy for "Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story" was one of two awards CNN received in 2012.
In January 2015, Clancy made a series of tweets about Israel and the
Charlie Hebdo shooting
.
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On January 16, 2015, CNN announced Clancy had retired from the network after nearly 34 years.
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Clancy later said he had no regrets and criticized Twitter trolls saying "I don't have to put up with this."
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References
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"33rd Annual News and Documentary Emmy Award Winners"
(PDF)
. Archived from
the original
(PDF)
on March 4, 2016.
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Steel, Emily (January 17, 2015).
"Anchor Leaves CNN After Tweets"
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The New York Times
. Retrieved
January 18,
2015
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Joyella, Mark (January 16, 2015).
"Jim Clancy Leaves CNN After 34 Years"
.
Adweek
. Retrieved
January 18,
2015
.
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Joyella, Mark (March 9, 2015).
"Jim Clancy: I Don't Have to Put Up With This, I'd Had Enough"
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Adweek
. Retrieved
March 9,
2015
.