Jim Sciutto is NCS’s chief nationwide safety analyst and anchor of The Brief with Jim Sciutto weekdays at 6pmET on NCS International and streaming for NCS subsribers.
Sciutto stories and gives evaluation on all elements of U.S. nationwide safety together with overseas coverage, the army, intelligence group and the State Department.
Throughout his profession, he has reported from greater than 50 nations throughout the globe together with dozens of assignments from inside Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran, in addition to a number of assignments in Ukraine and the Middle East.
Sciutto is the creator of 4 books, together with the New York Times Bestseller, The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China and the Next World War, revealed in 2024 by Dutton Books, which examines the breakdown of a a long time-previous worldwide order among the many world’s strongest powers. He additionally wrote The Shadow War, revealed in 2019, on Russian and Chinese efforts to undermine the U.S., and an inside have a look at President Trump’s overseas coverage, entitled The Madman Theory: Trump Takes on the World, revealed in 2020, each by Harper Collins. His first e-book, Against Us: The New Face of America’s Enemies within the Muslim World, analyzes the driving forces behind Islamic radicalization.
Among the honors Sciutto’s work has earned are the duPont-Colombia Award, Emmy Awards, the Edward R. Murrow Award, the George Polk Award and the White House Correspondence Association’s Merriman Smith Award for excellence in presidential protection.
Prior to becoming a member of NCS, Sciutto served as ABC News’ senior overseas correspondent, primarily based in London, and the Hong Kong-based correspondent for Asia Business News. Sciutto started his profession because the moderator and producer of a weekly public affairs discuss present on PBS.
Sciutto has additionally served as chief of employees and senior advisor to the U.S. Ambassador to China, Gary Locke.
He is a graduate of Yale University, the place he studied Chinese historical past, and was a Fulbright Fellow in Hong Kong. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and an affiliate fellow at Pierson College at Yale. Sciutto was appointed a Senior Fellow at Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs.
Sciutto is married to Gloria Riviera-Sciutto, a journalist and podcaster. They have three youngsters and dwell in Washington, DC.
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