Jim Miklaszewski

James Alan Miklaszewski (born 8 July 1949), known to his colleagues and contacts as "Mik" is a veteran journalist whose career spanned more than fortyyears, most of it covering the White House and Pentagon for NBC NEWS.

On 9/11 Jim was NBC's Chief Pentagon Correspondent reporting live from his desk when American Flight 77 slammed into the building and he was first to report the Pentagon had been attacked.He then led NBC's coverage of US military operations for the war in Afghanistan, and the hunt for Osama Bin Laden, the mastermind behind the 9/11 attack on America.

Miklaszewski's broadcast career began in West Texas at radio stations KVOP in Plainview and KLBK in Lubbock. He then spent several years as a News Director/Reporter for several radio stations in Madison and La Crosse, Wisconsin and in Fort Worth, Texas.

In 1980 Miklaszewski signed on as one of the "CNN Originals" where he quickly logged considerable battlefield experience covering the wars in Lebanon, El Salvador and the Falkland Islands.CNN later assigned him to the President Reagan White House where he reported on the terrorist attack that killed 220 Marines in Lebanon, the US military invasion of Grenada, and the President and Mrs. Reagan's trip to China.

NBC hired Miklaszewski first as a Pentagon correspondent in 1985 where he joined US forces during the "Tanker Wars" in the Persian Gulf.Jim was later assigned to cover President George Bush "41" during the first Gulf War with Iraq, and summits with Mikhail Gorbachev, and Boris Yeltsin. He remained in the White House for President Clinton's first term and reelection.Mik returned to the Pentagon where he covered the 9/11 attack, the US invasion of Iraq ordered by President George W. Bush, and ultimately the US Navy Seals operation that killed Osama bin Laden.

During his career Jim received an Emmy for his reporting on the Russian shootdown of Malaysia Flight 17, an Edward R. Murrow award for his series, "After Nam" a documentary on the Vietnam war, and a Cable Industray award for his coverage of the war in El Salvador.

He retired from NBC on September 28, 2016.

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