James Avila is an American
television journalist, who worked as the Senior Law and Justice Correspondent for
ABC News ABC News most commonly refers to:
* ABC News (Australia), a national news service of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
* ABC News (United States), a news-gathering and broadcasting division of the American Broadcasting Company
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. He graduated from
Glenbard East High School with the name of Jim Simon.
Before joining ABC, he was a correspondent for
NBC News
NBC News is the news division of the American broadcast television network NBC. The division operates under NBCUniversal Media Group, a division of NBCUniversal, which is itself a subsidiary of Comcast. The news division's various operations r ...
. He frequently anchored ABC's ''
World News Saturday''.
From 1994 to 1996, Avila was the investigative reporter for local NBC station
KNBC
KNBC (channel 4) is a television station in Los Angeles, California, United States, serving as the West Coast of the United States, West Coast flagship (broadcasting), flagship station of the NBC network. It is owned and operated by the network ...
in Los Angeles where he reported on the
O. J. Simpson murder case
''The People of the State of California v. Orenthal James Simpson'' was a Criminal procedure, criminal trial in Los Angeles County Superior Court, in which former National Football League, NFL player and actor O. J. Simpson was tried and acquitt ...
. The station won the 1995 Golden Mike Award and a 1996 Emmy Award for that trial coverage.
References
External links
ABC News Bio
American television reporters and correspondents
Television anchors from Chicago
Living people
Television anchors from Los Angeles
Television anchors from San Francisco
Year of birth missing (living people)
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