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Peter Jennings Anchor and Senior Editor, "World News Tonight With Peter Jennings" 
Peter Jennings is the anchor and senior editor of ABC's "World News Tonight" where he has established a reputation for independence and excellence in broadcast journalism. He is the network's principal anchor for breaking news, election coverage and special events.As one of America's most distinguished journalists, Peter Jennings has reported many of the pivotal events that have shaped our world. He was in Berlin in the 1960s when the Berlin Wall was going up, and there in the '90s when it came down. He covered the civil rights movement in the southern United States during the 1960s, and the struggle for equality in South Africa during the 1970s and '80s. He was there when the Voting Rights Act was signed in 1965, and on the other side of the world when South Africans voted for the first time. He has worked in every European nation that once was behind the Iron Curtain. He was there when the independent political movement Solidarity was born in a Polish shipyard, and again when Poland's communist leaders were forced from power. And he was in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Romania and throughout the Soviet Union to record first the repression of communism and then its demise. He was one of the first reporters who went to Vietnam in the 1960s, and went back to the killing fields of Cambodia in the 1980s to remind Americans that, unless they did something, the terror would return. In broadcast journalism, Peter Jennings has a reputation for putting the most complex and difficult issues on the agenda when others have largely ignored them. From his early days in the Middle East and South Africa, to the contemporary challenges in Africa and the former Soviet Union, on education, health care and tobacco -- these are issues with which Mr. Jennings' stewardship at "World News Tonight" and his special series, "Peter Jennings Reporting," have been associated.
He is the author, with Todd Brewster, of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller, "The Century." Structured as an epic tale about "ourselves," it is a lavish book that features astonishing first-person accounts of the great events of the century. In 1999, he anchored the 12-hour ABC series, "The Century," and ABC's series for The History Channel, "America's Time." He and Mr. Brewster have recently published a new book, "In Search of America," a companion book for the ABC News series. On December 31, 1999, Mr. Jennings anchored ABC's Peabody-award winning coverage of Millennium Eve, "ABC 2000." 175 million Americans watched the telecast, making it the biggest live global television ever. "The day belonged to ABC News," praised The Washington Post, "...with Peter Jennings doing a nearly superhuman job of anchoring." Mr. Jennings was the only anchor to appear live for 25 consecutive hours. Mr. Jennings led the Network's coverage of the September 11 attacks and America's subsequent war on terrorism. He anchored more than 60 hours that week during the Network's longest continuous period of news coverage, and was widely praised for providing a reassuring voice during the time of crisis. TV Guide called him "the center of gravity," while the Washington Post wrote, "Jennings, in his shirt sleeves, did a Herculean job of coverage." Mr. Jennings joined ABC News on August 3, 1964. He briefly served as the anchor of the "ABC Evening News" from 1965 to 1968. In 1972 he helped put ABC News on the map with his coverage of the Summer Olympics in Munich, as Arab terrorists took Israeli athletes hostage. Prior to his current appointment, Mr. Jennings served as chief foreign correspondent for ABC News and he was the foreign desk anchor for "World News Tonight" from 1978 to 1983. He established the first American television news bureau in the Arab world when he served as ABC News' bureau chief for Beirut, Lebanon, a position he held for seven years. Mr. Jennings was named anchor and senior editor of "World News Tonight" in 1983. In the only five years that the Washington Journalism Review gave an award for the country's best anchor, Mr. Jennings was named each time. In 1995 the Boston Globe noted "the passing of Edward R. Murrow's mantle to Peter Jennings." He has won the Harvard University's Goldsmith Career Award for excellence in journalism and the coveted Radio and Television News Directors Paul White Award, chosen by the news directors of all three major networks. This year, "World News Tonight" was honored with the Edward R. Murrow award for best newscast. His extensive domestic and overseas reporting experience has proven to be invaluable during "World News Tonight's" coverage of major crises. He has reported from all 50 states and locations around the globe. During the 1991 Gulf War and the 2003 War in Iraq, his knowledge of Middle Eastern affairs brought invaluable perspective to ABC News' coverage. During the historic transfer of sovereignty to Iraq in June 2004, Mr. Jennings was one of only two television journalists to witness the historic transfer of power and one of only three Western journalists to be in the room for Saddam Hussein's first appearance before an Iraqi court. He has anchored the ABC News coverage of every major national election since 1984. In "Peter Jennings Reporting," which debuted in 1990, Mr. Jennigns covers challenging issues in depth during primetime television. Millions watched the critically acclaimed "The Search for Jesus" in 2000 and "Jesus and Paul - the Word and the Witness" in 2004. "Peter Jennings Reporting" has also focused extensively on international news, with specials on tense relations between India and Pakistan, the conflict in Bosnia, the crisis in Haiti, the war in Iraq and the drug trade in Central and South America. The series has also tackled important domestic issues such as gun control policy, the politics of abortion, the crisis in funding for the arts and a highly praised chronicle of the accused bombers of Oklahoma City. "Peter Jennings Reporting" has earned numerous awards, including the 2004 Edward R. Morrow award for best documentary for "The Kennedy Assasination - Beyond Conspiracy." Mr. Jennings has a particular interest in broadcasting for the next generation. He has done numerous live news specials for children on subjects ranging from growing up in the age of AIDS, to prejudice and its effects on our society. After the events of September 11, and again on the anniversary, he anchored a town hall meeting for children and parents entitled, "Answering Children's Questions." Mr. Jennings has been honored with many awards for news reporting, including 14 national Emmys, two George Foster Peabody Awards, several Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards and several Overseas Press Club Awards. He currently resides in Manhattan with his wife, Kayce Freed. He has two children. Need to write? 
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