25 Facts About Jim Acosta

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Abilio James Acosta was born on April 17,1971 and is an American broadcast journalist, anchor and the chief domestic correspondent for CNN.

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Previously, Jim Acosta served as the network's chief White House correspondent during the Trump administration, in which he gained national attention for President Donald Trump's clashes with him at press briefings.

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Jim Acosta covered the Obama administration as CNN's senior White House correspondent.

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Jim Acosta's father arrived in the US at age 11 as a refugee from Santa Maria del Rosario, Cuba three weeks before the Cuban Missile Crisis and was raised in Virginia.

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Jim Acosta's mother is of Irish and Czech ancestry, and his father's ancestors had originally come to Cuba from the Canary Islands.

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Jim Acosta, raised in Northern Virginia, graduated from Annandale High School in 1989.

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Jim Acosta worked as a reporter at WSVA, a local radio station, which is owned and operated by Saga Communications.

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8.

Jim Acosta began his professional career in radio, and his first job was with WMAL in Washington, DC In 1994, Jim Acosta left WMAL and entered television, working for Fox affiliate WTTG-TV as a desk assistant.

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In 1995, Jim Acosta moved in front of the camera, becoming a reporter and substitute anchor at NBC affiliate WBIR-TV in Knoxville, Tennessee, and remained in that job until 1998.

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From 1998 until 2000, Jim Acosta worked as a reporter for CBS affiliate KTVT-TV in Dallas.

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From 2000 until 2001, Jim Acosta was a reporter for WBBM-TV in Chicago.

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From 2001 until 2003, Jim Acosta worked as a correspondent for CBS News' Newspath service, based both in Dallas and Chicago.

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From February 2003 until March 2007, Jim Acosta was a correspondent for CBS News and was based first in New York and then in Atlanta.

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At CBS News, Jim Acosta covered the 2004 campaign of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, the Iraq War from Baghdad, and Hurricane Katrina.

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Jim Acosta later joined CNN's American Morning program as a correspondent and contributed to the network's coverage of the 2010 midterm elections.

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Jim Acosta was then the senior White House correspondent for CNN.

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At a nationally televised news conference in November 2015, Jim Acosta challenged President Obama on his administration's strategy for destroying the terrorist organization known as ISIS.

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Jim Acosta traveled to Cuba in March 2016 to cover President Obama's historic trip to the island.

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At a rare news conference in Havana featuring both Obama and Cuban president Raul Castro, Jim Acosta pressed the Cuban leader on his country's human rights record.

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Jim Acosta was promoted to chief White House correspondent on January 9,2018.

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In January 2021, CNN announced that Jim Acosta would move to chief domestic correspondent and weekend anchor.

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Jim Acosta got into a heated debate at a White House press conference on August 2,2017, arguing with White House senior policy advisor Stephen Miller over the Trump administration's support for the RAISE Act.

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Jim Acosta did not decline nor support that statement and argued over her own treatment by the media.

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Jim Acosta was praised by many liberals and panned by many conservatives.

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Jim Acosta verbally sparred with President Trump during a White House press conference on November 7,2018, following the 2018 midterm elections.

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