James Alan Miklaszewski (/ˌmɪkləˈʃɛfski/; born July 8, 1949), known to his colleagues and contacts as "Mik", is a veteran journalist whose career spanned more than forty years, most of it covering the White House and Pentagon for NBC News.
He then led NBC's coverage of US military operations for the war in Afghanistan, and the hunt for Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the 9/11 attack on America.
In 1980 Miklaszewski signed on as one of the "CNN Originals" where he quickly logged considerable battlefield experience covering the wars in Lebanon, El Salvador and the Falkland Islands.
Jim was later assigned to cover President George H. W. Bush during the first Gulf War with Iraq, and summits with Mikhail Gorbachev, and Boris Yeltsin.
Miklaszewski returned to the Pentagon where he covered the 9/11 attack, the US invasion of Iraq and ultimately the US Navy SEALs operation that killed Osama bin Laden.