Jim Bittermann

Based in Rome from 1978–1979, he covered two Papal transitions and the travels of Pope John Paul II.

While there, he reported on many of the decade's major international stories in Eastern Europe, Northern and Western Africa, the Middle East, the Philippines, Japan and the Soviet Union.

[1] He has reported wars and revolutions in the Mideast, Africa and eastern Europe as well as such stories as the Soccer World Cup, the travels of Pope John Paul II, and Princess Diana's death in 1997.

[5] The couple's one daughter, Dr. Tess Bittermann, is a gastroenterologist at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia.

In April, 2017, Bittermann married Mary Jean Lowe, a counselor at the American School of Paris.