Name Terry McCarthy Role Correspondent | ||
Full Name Terence McCarthy Nationality American, Irish, British Awards News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast Similar Katie Couric, Peter Jennings, Bob Woodruff, Jim Sciutto, Charles Gibson | ||
Education University College Dublin | ||
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Terry McCarthy is a former foreign correspondent who is now the head of the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, a non-partisan foreign affairs forum in Los Angeles. He has won four Emmy Awards and an Edward R. Murrow Award. He has worked with The Independent, Time magazine, ABC News, CBS News, and the Los Angeles World Affairs Council. He holds an Honorary Degree as a Doctor of Literature from University College Dublin.
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- Does underfunding of journalism impoverish policy debate terry mccarthy war correspondent 2015
- Getting access to the warzone terry mccarthy emmy award winning war correspondent 2015
- The Independent
- Time
- ABC News
- CBS News
- Los Angeles World Affairs Council
- References
Getting access to the warzone terry mccarthy emmy award winning war correspondent 2015
The Independent
McCarthy was affiliated with The Independent from 1987 until 1995. He served as a Southeast Asia correspondent in Bangkok and later as the Tokyo Bureau Chief. His coverage included the coup in Burma, during which he interviewed Aung San Suu Kyi during her house arrest. He also reported on the death of Kim Il Sung, and was the first reporter for a British newspaper to enter North Korea after the leader's death. Additionally, he covered the coup in Thailand, the war in Sri Lanka, and the economic and societal developments in Japan.
Time
During his tenure at Time magazine (1998-2005), Terry McCarthy served as the Los Angeles Bureau Chief, East Asia Correspondent in Shanghai, and set up TIME's Bureau offices in both Kabul and Baghdad. In both 2004 and 2005, he received an Emmy award for a joint ABC-Times News Series on Iraq.
ABC News
McCarthy was foreign correspondent for ABC News in the Middle East, Asia and Latin America from 2006 to 2009. He was the Principal Baghdad Correspondent during the US surge in Iraq and covered the trial and execution of Saddam Hussein. He traveled down the Yangtze River in China, focusing on the economic, political and environmental impact of the man-made waterway. In 2008, he won an Emmy for the series "Iraq: Where Things Stand" for ABC World News with Charlie Gibson.
CBS News
During his time at CBS News (2009-2011), McCarthy reported on the Middle East, Central Asia and China. While in Afghanistan, he was embedded with the 3rd Battalion 1st Marines, also known as the Thundering Third. His coverage focused on the 1st EOD Company, a team of Explosive Ordnance Disposal (bomb disposal) experts, which aired as part of the Afghanistan: The Road Ahead Series on CBS Evening News with Katie Couric. In 2011, he received an Emmy for Outstanding Continuing Coverage and the Edward R. Murrow Award for Video News Series for his work on the Afghan Bomb Squad.
Los Angeles World Affairs Council
In 2012, McCarthy was appointed the president and CEO of the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, a foreign affairs forum. He has interviewed speakers including Timothy Geithner, Elon Musk, Stanley McChrystal, John McCain and Bill Clinton. He is also a frequent speaker and moderator for programs that focus on the media and foreign coverage, American foreign policy, events in the Middle East, and the pivot to Asia. He also provides commentary and expert opinions for publications including The New York Times and Yale Global Online.