In addition to his roles with ABC and CBS, he helped build the website The Blotter with investigative reporter Brian Ross.
[2] He Groton School and graduated from Yale University in 1976 and began his career in the documentary unit at NBC News.
[6] In May 1998, Isham organized the first major network interview with Osama bin Laden,[7] and broke other major stories exposing security threats at U.S. airports, CIA interrogation techniques, post-Hurricane Katrina insurance fraud, and secret tapes of Saddam Hussein.
His unit was responsible for breaking hundreds of new stories and exclusive reports on a range of topics from terrorism to political corruption.
[8] Isham faced significant questions about his journalistic ethics in 2011 when it was revealed by the Daily Beast that he was a confidential informant for the FBI in the 90s.