Jim Clancy (born Chicago, December 18, 1955) is an American broadcast journalist, best known as a former correspondent and anchor on

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. He formerly anchored several CNN news reports, including ''The World Today'' and ''The Brief'', before his resignation following a series of controversial exchanges with other users on Twitter. CLANCY3photobyNancyWong

Career

From 1982 to 1996, Clancy was a CNN international correspondent in the

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, Frankfurt,

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and London bureaus. During this time, he won the

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for his reporting on the genocide in

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, the DuPont-Columbia Award for coverage of the war in

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, an

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for reporting on the famine and international intervention in

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and the A.H. Boerma Award for his coverage of global food and hunger issues. Clancy joined CNN in 1981 as a national correspondent after an extensive career in local radio and television in

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, Colorado and San Francisco, California. In 2012, Clancy contributed to CNN'S Emmy Award-winning coverage of the resignation of Egyptian President

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. The Emmy for "Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story" was one of two awards CNN received in 2012. In January 2015, Clancy made a series of tweets about Israel and the

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. On January 16, 2015, CNN announced Clancy had retired from the network after nearly 34 years. Clancy later said he had no regrets and criticized Twitter trolls saying "I don't have to put up with this."

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