Jim Bittermann Biography

Jim Bittermann is an American anchor working for CNN as a Senior International Correspondent. He joined the CNN news team in 1996, after previously working for ABC News.

Jim Bittermann Career

Bittermann is a senior international correspondent for CNN who works out of Paris. He has been with CNN since 1996 and has covered many important events, such as the death of Princess Diana in 1997. Moreover, she covered NATO air strikes on Kosovo in 1998, the earthquake in Turkey in 1999, and the World Cup soccer championships. Bittmann moved from ABC News to CNN. From 1990 to 1996, he was a news reporter in Paris for ABC News.

He covered many foreign events during his time at ABC, such as the fall of the Soviet Union, the Gulf War, the peace process in the Middle East, and U.S. troops being sent to Somalia. For ABC, he worked on long-form shows like “Betrayed in Blood,” “A Perfect Messiah,” and “The Fashion Conspiracy.” He also did a story on the French AIDS-tainted blood scandal for “PrimeTime Live,” and he did two half-hour special reports for “Nightline with Ted Koppel.”

Bittermann worked for NBC News as a European reporter from 1978 to 1990. From 1978 to 1979, he lived in Rome and covered two changes of Pope and Pope John Paul II’s trips. He lived in Paris from 1980 to 1990. During that time, he wrote about many of the most important foreign stories of the decade in Western and Northern Africa, the Middle East, the Philippines, Japan, and the Soviet Union. He won a national news Emmy Award for his work covering the Sudan famine in 1988.

Before coming to NBC, Bittermann worked as a reporter and director for a newsmagazine on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He also worked as a reporter for WKYC-TV in Cleveland, Ohio, from 1973 to 1975. Before that, he worked for one year as a reporter for Pittsburgh’s WQED-TV. Bittermann worked on the national campaigns for president of Sen. Birch Bayh of Indiana and Sen. Edmund Muskie of Maine in 1971 and 1972. He got his start in television journalism in 1970 at WTMJ-TV in Milwaukee. Before that, he worked as a reporter for the Waukegan News-Sun in Waukegan, Ill. for one year.

One of the many awards he has won is a CableACE Award for CNN’s coverage of the Zaire civil war. Besides being a member of the jury for the French film award Les Lumieres de Paris, he has led a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Bittermann has been an assistant adjunct professor of communication at the American University of Paris since 1998. Among other things, he teaches courses in documentary film and television news. Bittermann got his bachelor’s degree from Southern Illinois University. In 1989, the school named him the Journalism Alumnus of the Year. He won the university’s Alumni Achievement Award in 2000.

Jim Bittermann Salary

Bittermann earns a salary of about $47,000-$120,000.

Jim Bittermann Net Worth

Bittermann has an estimated net worth of about $1 Million – $7 Million which he has earned through his career as a Senior International Correspondent.

Jim Bittermann Age

Bittermann has neither disclosed the date, month nor the year he was born. Thus, it is not known how old he is or when he celebrates his birthday.

Jim Bittermann Height and Weight

Bittermann stands at a height of 5 feet 10 inches tall (1.77m) and weighs 73 kgs (160 lbs).

Jim Bittermann Family

Bittermann likes to keep his personal life private hence he has neither disclosed the names of his parent nor those of his siblings. However, this information will be updated when available.

Jim Bittermann Wife and Children

Bittermann was married to Patricia Thompson, an Emmy-award-winning producer who died in 2010. They shared a daughter named Dr. Tess Bittermann, who is a gastroenterologist at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia