| Summary: | Journalist Ron Allen was born on July 22, 1957. He received both his B.A. degree and M.A. degree in political science from the University of Pennsylvania. In 1980, Allen was hired as a desk assistant for a CBS news station in New York City. From 1988 until 1992, he worked as a national correspondent for CBS News based in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles, California. In 1992, Allen was appointed as a foreign correspondent for ABC News and served in London until 1996. He was then hired by NBC News in 1996 as a national and international correspondent and was based in London until 2003, when he moved to New York. Allen earned six Overseas Press Club Awards, five Emmys, two Robert F. Kennedy Awards, two George Foster Peabody Awards, and two Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia Awards. In 1996, the National Association of Black Journalists named him Journalist of the Year.
|
|---|
