Jamie McIntyre

James J. McIntye, known professionally as Jamie McIntyre, is an American journalist best known for his stint as CNN's military affairs and senior Pentagon correspondent from 1992 to 2008. His career spans more than four decades, beginning in 1975 with a part-time job as a Sunday morning disc jockey at WDVH, a 5,000-watt country music "daytimer" radio station in Gainesville, Florida, to his current position as senior writer for defense and national security at the Washington Examiner.

Aside from his journalistic work, McIntyre is known for humor. In 2006 he was named "Third Funniest Reporter on the Planet" in a charity competition at the Laugh Factory in New York City. Later that year McIntyre also placed third in the "Funniest Celebrity in Washington" contest at the DC Improv. In 2010 he was the judges' choice as "DC Funniest Reporter", at the Commedia del Media charity event at the National Press Club.

In 2006, McIntyre was among a group of people named Time magazine's "Person of the Year".

Early life and education McIntyre graduate of Alexandria City High School in 1971, and graduated from the University of Florida in 1976 with a Bachelor of Science, majoring in journalism. In 2002, McIntyre was honored as a distinguished alumnus of the University of Florida.

Between 2010 and 2017, McIntyre was as an adjunct professor teaching multimedia journalism at the University of Maryland, whilst also studying a Master of Arts in journalism.

Journalism In 1989, after a year of freelancing as a weekend reporter for CNN's Washington Bureau, McIntyre was hired by WUSA-TV, Channel 9 in Washington as host and senior writer of the Sunday morning news feature magazine show Capital Edition, where he was awarded two local Emmy awards for his work.

In May 2011, while freelancing as a fill-in anchor at NPR, McIntyre handled all the live broadcasts of the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden, and shortly thereafter was hired as a staff newscaster, writing and reading newscasts at the bottom of each hour during NPR's flagship program All Things Considered.

In 2014 McIntyre joined the Washington bureau of Al Jazeera America, a new cable network funded by the government of Qatar, staffed with veteran U.S. journalists, and intended to appeal to an American audience. McIntyre returned to covering the Pentagon and national security, until the network folded in 2016.

McIntyre then was hired by the Washington Examiner, a conservative web-based news site, where he writes a newsletter, Daily on Defense, which is emailed to more than 30,000 subscribers each weekday morning, and also contributes a weekly article to the Washington Examiner magazine.

9/11 McIntyre was in the Pentagon on September 11, 2001 after it had been stuck by a missile.

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