Jim Bittermann

Jim Bittermann is CNN's Senior European Correspondent based in Paris, joining CNN in 1996. Bittermann joined CNN from ABC News, where he was a Paris news correspondent from 1990-1996. From 1978-1990, Bittermann was a European correspondent for NBC News. based in Rome from 1978-1979. Prior to NBC, Bittermann was a Toronto-based correspondent and producer for the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.'s newsmagazine. He also worked as a reporter for WKYC-TV in Cleveland, Ohio, from 1973-1975 after working one year for WQED-TV, a public television station in Pittsburgh. In 1971-1972, Bittermann traveled the national presidential campaign staffs of Sen. Birch Bayh of Indiana and Sen. Edmund Muskie of Maine. He began his career in broadcast journalism in 1970 at WTMJ-TV in Milwaukee, after one year as a newspaper reporter with the Waukegan News-Sun in Waukegan, Ill. Bittermann earned a bachelor's degree from Southern Illinois University.