Jim Bittermann

Jim Bittermann is CNN's Senior International Correspondent based in Paris. Since joining CNN in 1996, he has covered the death of Princess Diana in 1997, NATO air strikes on Kosovo in 1998, the earthquake in Turkey in 1999, and the World Cup soccer championships, among other stories. Bittermann previously worked for ABC News, where he was a Paris news correspondent from 1990 to 1996. During his years with ABC, he covered a wide range of international events, including the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Gulf War and the Middle East peace process, and U.S. deployment in Somalia. His long-form projects at ABC included Betrayed in Blood, a report on the French AIDS-tainted blood scandal for PrimeTime Live, and two half-hour special reports for Nightline with Ted Koppel, "A Perfect Messiah" and "The Fashion Conspiracy."

From 1978 to 1990, Bittermann was a European correspondent for NBC News. Based in Rome from 1978 to 1979, he covered two Papal transitions and the travels of Pope John Paul II. From 1980 to 1990, he was based in Paris. While there, he reported on many of the decade's major international stories in Eastern Europe, Northern and Western Africa, the Middle East, the Philippines, Japan, and the Soviet Union. He received a national news Emmy Award for his coverage of the 1988 Sudan famine.

Bittermann's many honors include a CableACE Award for CNN's coverage of the civil war in Zaire. He has been a panel moderator at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and a member of the jury for the French film competition Les Lumieres de Paris. Since 1998, Bittermann has been assistant adjunct professor of communication at the American University of Paris, teaching courses in broadcast news and documentary film, among other subjects.