Jim Clancy is an anchor on CNN International, based in Atlanta, Georgia. He most recently anchored The Brief, which aired weekdays at 11 a.m. ET/5 p.m. CET. The Brief was removed from CNN's schedules, effective 28th October 2011, although Clancy will remain with CNN in an as yet undetermined role.
From 1982 to 1996, Clancy was a CNN international correspondent in the Beirut, Frankfurt, Rome and London bureaus. During this time, he won the George Polk Award for his reporting on the genocide in Rwanda, the DuPont-Columbia Award for coverage of the war in Bosnia and an Emmy Award for reporting on the famine and international intervention in Somalia. Clancy joined CNN in 1981 as a national correspondent after an extensive, award-winning career in local radio and television in Denver, Colorado and San Francisco, California.