John Miller (journalist)

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John Miller is the Assistant Director of Public Affairs for the FBI. Miller is a former ABC News reporter and anchor. He conducted a famous May 1998 interview with Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan.

Miller attended Emerson College for one year. He began work as a journalist in 1973 for WNEW in New York City. Miller cut his teeth as an investigative journalist for WNBC from 1985 to 1994. He is regarded as an expert on organized crime, especially the Mafia, and also on domestic and international terror groups.

He served as the Deputy Police Commissioner of New York City from 1994–1995 as chief spokesman for Commissioner William Bratton. Miller then worked as an ABC News correspondent until January 2002 when he took the post of co-anchor with Barbara Walters of the ABC program 20/20. During the September 11 terrorist attacks, he was Peter Jennings' "right-hand man" at the anchor desk. In January 2003, he quit to rejoin Bratton at the Los Angeles Police Department as their Bureau Chief for the Counter-Terrorism and Criminal Intelligence Bureau, which included the Major Crimes Division, and the Emergency Services Division and the Special Investigations Section (SIS)

In September, 2005 Miller left Los Angeles for Washington, D.C. to become the Assistant Director of Public Affairs for the FBI.

His journalistic awards include two Peabody Awards, a DuPont-Columbia Award, and nine Emmys.

His father, John Miller Sr., was a gossip columnist in New York and friends with mafia boss Frank Costello. The two were so close, Costello served as godfather to John Jr.