Jason Carroll is a national correspondent for CNN as well as a contributor to American Morning on CNN/U.S. Previously, Carroll co-anchored the morning news program Ahead of the Curve, which aired simultaneously on CNN/U.S. and CNNfn, CNN's financial network. Carroll is based in the network's New York bureau.
Since joining CNN in 2001, Carroll has worked on a variety of breaking stories, including Hurricane Katrina, the London terrorist bombing plot and on-scene coverage of American Airlines Flight 587 in Queens, N.Y.
Carroll came to CNN after working three years as a general assignment reporter in Los Angeles for CBS 2 News. Before that, he was a general assignment reporter for WPIX-TV in New York and a general assignment reporter at KAKE-TV in Wichita, Kan. He has also worked for 60 Minutes and the think tank RAND organization.
Recognized several times for his work, Carroll won the Edward R. Murrow Award for team coverage of the 1993 Long Island Railroad massacre when a gunmen killed six and wounded 19 other commuters on the train.
Carroll began his broadcast career in 1992 at KGET-TV in Bakersfield, Calif., where he served as a general assignment reporter. He graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in literature and creative writing from the University of Southern California.
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