James Longman
{{Short description|English news correspondent}}
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James Longman (born 1986) is an English journalist and foreign correspondent for US network ABC News.{{cite web|last=Evans |first=Greg |url=https://deadline.com/2017/06/abc-news-hire-correspondent-james-longman-1202105766/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170601181011/http://deadline.com/2017/06/abc-news-hire-correspondent-james-longman-1202105766/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=1 June 2017 |title=ABC News Hires BBC Correspondent James Longman For London Bureau |website=Deadline Hollywood |date=2017-06-01 |access-date=17 June 2017}} Previously, he worked at the BBC where he worked as a general news reporter and the corporation's Beirut correspondent. Fluent in Arabic and French, he specialised in the Middle East, and regularly reports on issues around the refugee crisis and the Arab world, as well as terrorist incidents around Europe.{{cite web|url=http://www.jameslongman.com/|title=James Longman - Journalist and Broadcaster|website=Jameslongman.com|access-date=4 October 2016}}
Early life
Longman was born in 1986 in West London. He was educated at Hill House in Knightsbridge and at Worth School, a boarding school in West Sussex.{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.independentschoolparent.com/school/bright-young-things8/ |title=Bright Young Things |publisher=Independent School Parent |date=2017-06-12 |access-date=17 June 2017}} He has a bachelor's degree in Arabic from the School of Oriental and African Studies, and a masters in Comparative Politics from the London School of Economics.
Career
Longman started his career inside Syria, where he spent six months reporting for British newspapers, spending time in rebel-held areas in the lead-up to the war.{{cite web|url=http://www.frontlineclub.com/how_to_become_a_freelance_foreign_correspondent/|title=How to become a freelance foreign correspondent |website=Frontlineclub.com|access-date=4 October 2016}} In 2012, he was hired by the BBC for his speciality in Syria.
He has taken a particular interest in mental health, and reported on his own family's history for the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme, where he was based in London.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36257370|title='Did I inherit mental illness?'|work=BBC News|date=11 May 2016|publisher=|access-date=4 October 2016}}
In 2016, he ran the London Marathon in aid of Mind.
Now at ABC, he has travelled to over 50 countries on breaking news, as well as on features and news specials on all kinds of issues for ABC's Good Morning America, World News Tonight and Nightline, as well as for National Geographic's Virus Hunters.{{cite web|last1=Grant|first1=David|title=ABC News just added out (and SUPER hot) foreign correspondent James Longman|url=https://www.queerty.com/abc-news-just-added-super-hot-foreign-correspondent-james-longman-20170608?tse_id=INF_c96b3cf04c8111e780b645b806a7020f|website=Queerty.com|access-date=8 June 2017}} Longman won the David Bloom award from the Radio and Television Correspondents Association{{Cite web |url=https://rtcaawards.org/ |title=2020 RTCA Dinner |access-date=21 January 2021 |archive-date=26 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126081754/https://rtcaawards.org/ |url-status=dead }} and a Deadline Club award from the Society of Professional Journalists for his work in Chechnya,{{Cite web|title=2020 Award Winners with Judges Comments|url=https://www.deadlineclub.org/2020-award-winners-with-judges-comments-2/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200928185219/https://www.deadlineclub.org/2020-award-winners-with-judges-comments-2/|archive-date=28 September 2020|access-date=7 January 2022|website=Deadline Club}} and won a News Emmy in 2021 for his work on the climate crisis in India, having also been nominated for his work in Thailand, Sri Lanka, Antarctica and the Middle East.{{Cite web|url=https://theemmys.tv/news-and-documentary-40th-nominees/|title = NOMINEES FOR THE 40th ANNUAL NEWS & DOCUMENTARY EMMY® AWARDS ANNOUNCED |website=Theemmys.tv}}{{Cite web|url=https://theemmys.tv/news-41st-nominations/|title=NOMINEES ANNOUNCED FOR THE 41ST ANNUAL NEWS & DOCUMENTARY EMMY® AWARDS – The Emmys|website=Theemmys.tv|access-date=28 July 2022}} He was nominated for Young Talent of the Year at the 2016 Royal Television Society Awards.{{cite web|url=https://www.rts.org.uk/article/nominations-announced-rts-television-journalism-awards-2017|title=Nominations announced for RTS Television Journalism Awards 2017 {{!}} Royal Television Society|website=Rts.org.uk|date=8 February 2017|language=en|access-date=7 April 2017}}
Personal life
Longman is gay.{{cite news|url=https://abcnews.go.com/International/time-told-head-chechen-police-gay-standing-jail/story?id=66323713|title=That time I told the head of Chechen police I was gay. Standing in a jail cell: Reporter's notebook|publisher=ABC News|last=Longman|first=James|date=October 23, 2019}}{{cite news|url=https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/living/story/abc-news-james-longman-coming-imagine-life-now-66168361|title=ABC News' James Longman on coming out: 'I could never imagine then the life I have now'|publisher=Good Morning America/ABC News|last=Longman|first=James|date=October 8, 2020}}{{Cite web|date=2017-03-07|title=BBC News' James Longman on the reality of reporting from the Middle East as a gay man|url=https://attitude.co.uk/article/bbc-news-james-longman-on-the-reality-of-reporting-from-the-middle-east-as-a-gay-man/13780/|access-date=2022-01-08|website=Attitude.co.uk|language=en|archive-date=27 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191027112647/https://attitude.co.uk/article/bbc-news-james-longman-on-the-reality-of-reporting-from-the-middle-east-as-a-gay-man/13780/|url-status=dead}} He proposed to his partner, Alex Brannan, in the summer of 2020, and the two married in July 2022.{{Cite web|last=Corinthios|first=Aurelie|date=26 June 2020|title=ABC News Correspondent James Longman Proposes to Boyfriend — Watch the Sweet Video|url=https://people.com/tv/abc-news-correspondent-james-longman-proposes-boyfriend/|website=People}}{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/JamesAALongman/status/1551174203797274629 |title=Mr and Mr 🎉|website=Twitter.com|access-date=28 July 2022}}
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