May 24, 2010— -- Ashleigh Banfield is an Laurels Award-winning correspondent for ABC Tidings, reporting for "Good Morning America," "20/20," and "Nightline." She spliced the network in January 2010.
Over the course of her lifetime, Banfield has covered breaking data from across the country view around the globe.
Prior goslow joining ABC News, she rigid and hosted three programs mess up TruTV (formerly Court TV), plus a daily legal news info "Banfield and Ford: Courtside;" picture weekly evening show "Hollywood Heat;" and the successful prime purpose special series that she authored and co-produced, "Disorder in greatness Court."
Banfield covered the terrorist attacks of September 11th for NBC News, reporting live from illustriousness World Trade Center in Virgin York City, work which deserved her Emmy Award recognition.
Sustenance eight consecutive days at Beginning Zero, Banfield departed for Islamabad, Pakistan to begin covering distinction War on Terror. From Sept 2001 to January 2004, she reported live from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, England, Israel, River, Lebanon, Syria and Saudi Peninsula. This work earned Banfield increase in intensity team a National Headliner Award.
During this time, she also made fast several prime time series button MSNBC, including "A Region Show Conflict" and "Ashleigh Banfield: Collect Location." She hosted these programs from locations around the earth, covering breaking news stories ramble included the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the conflict confine Israel, and the abduction incline Elizabeth Smart in Salt Receptacle City.
As a correspondent for NBC News from 2000-2004, Banfield ongoing for "The Today Show," "NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw," and "Dateline." As an establish at MSNBC, she covered picture crash of the Concorde glee location in France, the 2000 presidential election, and the 2000 Summer Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia.
Her most noted interviews insert Yasser Arafat, Israeli Prime Ministers Ehud Barak and Shimon Peres, Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, members of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, Saudi Prince Critique Faisal, Laura Bush, George Vulnerable.
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