Born: 1949, Cudahy, Wisconsin, USA
Career. Miklaszewski was news director for KRXV-AM (Radio 15) in Fort Worth, Texas, and used the air name of "James Allen." In mid-1979 he worked as an account executive for the station after its all-news format was dropped in favor of an easy listening music format. Following this, Miklaszewski was one of the CNN "Originals", serving as a National Correspondent and covering the Reagan White House. He was also a moderator for two CNN public affairs programs, Election Watch and Newsmaker Sunday. Miklaszewski gained considerable foreign experience with battlefront coverage of wars in Lebanon, El Salvador and the Falkland Islands. He also covered the United States air raid on Libya, and the "tanker wars" in the Persian Gulf. Since joining NBC in 1985, Miklaszewski was a White House correspondent during the Bush Sr. and Clinton administrations. In the Bush White House, Miklaszewski reported on the Gulf War with Iraq, summits with Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin and the Bush reelection campaign in 1992. Later he was covering President Clinton's transition from Little Rock, his many trips abroad including Moscow and the Middle East and his reelection. He was also an NBC floor reporter at the Democratic and Republican conventions in 1996 and 2000. He was reporting live for the Today Show on September 11, 2001 when a plane hit the Pentagon, where his office is based. He has since led the network's coverage of the war in Afghanistan. Miklaszewski is married to Cheryl Heyse, and they have two sons, James and Jeffrey.
Awards and prizes. Miklaszewski was awarded the cable industry's "ACE" award for his coverage of the war in El Salvador. His series, "After Nam," a documentary on the Vietnam War ten years after the fall of Saigon earned the Edward R. Murrow award for journalism. He was also cited by the Overseas Press Club for his reporting on the sinking of the Russian submarine Kursk.
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