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Former Longtime ABC Correspondent Jim Avila Dies at 69
Jim Avila, who won a White House Correspondents Association award, worked nearly 20 years at ABC News covering major political events and investigative reports.
- ABC News said on November 13 that veteran correspondent Jim Avila died at 69 after a long illness.
- Jim Avila spent nearly two decades as an L.A.-based ABC correspondent covering politics, justice, law and consumer investigations and served as a 20/20 correspondent while covering the White House from 2012 to 2016.
- Avila's reporting earned two National Emmy Awards and five Edward R. Murrow Awards, and he won the Merriman Award for breaking the U.S.-Cuba diplomatic reopening.
- Tributes and remembrances flooded social media as Almin Karamehmedovic, ABC News president, wrote that `Jim was a gifted journalist and a generous colleague`, offering condolences to Jamie, Jenny and Evan.
- After leaving ABC in 2021 following his kidney transplant, Jim Avila returned in 2023 to KGTV, ABC's San Diego affiliate, as a senior investigative reporter.
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Former longtime ABC correspondent Jim Avila dies at 69
Jim Avila, a veteran reporter for ABC News, died this week after a long illness, the network reported Thursday. Avila, 69, reported for marquee ABC News programs like “20/20” and “World News Tonight” during his decades-long career with the broadcast network. He covered some of the biggest national stories during his time in front of…
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Jim Avila, journalist for NBC, ABC and KNBC, dies at 70
Avila covered the O.J. Simpson trial for NBC's station in Los Angeles before a long career as a network correspondent.
·Los Angeles, United States
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Leaning Left10Leaning Right7Center9Last UpdatedBias Distribution38% Left
Bias Distribution
- 38% of the sources lean Left
38% Left
L 38%
C 35%
R 27%
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