Jamie McIntyre

CNN Military Affairs Correspondent

Jamie McIntyre is CNN's longest-serving military affairs correspondent, having taken over the beat in November 1992, shortly after the election of President Bill Clinton.

One of the most senior reporters assigned to the Pentagon, McIntyre has earned a reputation for fairness and accuracy while covering (mostly from from Washington) U.S. and NATO military opeartions in Somalia, Iraq, Bosnia, Haiti, Rwanda, and Kosovo.

He works out of an office on the E-ring of the Pentagon, along with CNN National Security Affairs Senior Producer Chris Plante. The pair have developed extensive sources that have helped CNN be first to report numerous military news stories, while at the same time maintaining the delicate balance between the public's right to information about ongoing operations and the legitimate need to maintain national security and protect the lives of troops.

While McIntyre reports mostly from the Pentagon, he has traveled extensively in the past decade, visiting more than 50 countries and traveling more than 400,000 miles mostly on military aircraft.

McIntyre's assignments have taken him to the depths of the Atlantic Ocean, where he piloted a U.S. attack submarine and to the skies over Georgia, where he flew an F-16 fighter jet from the backseat.

McIntyre joined CNN as a general assignment reporter in February 1992, after several years of freelance work for the network.

From 1989 to 1991 he was host and senior writer for the Sunday morning magazine program Capital Edition on Washington, D.C.'s WUSA-TV, Channel 9, for which he was honored with two local Emmy Awards.

Before that, McIntyre spent 12 years at Washington's all-news WTOP radio as a news editor and reporter, covering local and regional news.

McIntyre is a 1976 graduate of the University of Florida School of Journalism and Communications, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in broadcasting. In 1974, he received an associate's degree in liberal arts from Northern Virginia Community College.

Updated: September 11, 2000