Jim Acosta is a correspondent for CNN's American Morning based in the network's Washington, D.C., bureau. Since joining CNN in March 2007, Acosta has covered the tragedy at Virginia Tech and the 2008 presidential election. Acosta covered the campaigns of Hillary Clinton, John McCain and Barack Obama, frequently contributing as co-anchor on CNN’s weekend political show, Ballot Bowl.
Before joining CNN, Acosta had been a CBS News correspondent since February 2003. Originally based in New York, he later relocated to the CBS bureau in Atlanta. He contributed primarily to the CBS Evening News and has covered stories including the Iraq war from Baghdad, the 2004 presidential campaign of Sen. John Kerry, Hurricane Katrina and the blackout of 2003.
Previously, he was a correspondent for CBS Newspath, the network's 24-hour news service, from 2001-2003 and was based in Dallas and Chicago during that time. Acosta covered the Pennsylvania miner rescue, the Washington, D.C.-area sniper story and the Andrea Yates trial, among other stories.
Before that, he was a reporter and substitute anchor for WBBM-TV, the CBS-owned station in Chicago from 2000 to 2001; a reporter for KTVT-TV, the CBS-owned station in Dallas, from 1998 to 2000 and a reporter and substitute anchor for WBIR-TV in Knoxville, Tenn., from 1995 to 1998. While in Knoxville, he earned a Best of Gannett Award for investigative reporting.
Acosta graduated cum laude from James Madison University with a degree in mass communications and a minor in political science.
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