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Sara James is an Emmy Award-winning journalist and author.  James has covered significant news events in Australasia for NBC, CNN and PBS.  James is a featured commentator on Australia’s ABC News Breakfast.  Her American in Oz segment provides detailed analysis of the US political landscape.

Prior to moving to Australia in 2008, James was based in New York City for NBC News for more than a decade. Her reporting duties took her to all fifty US states and around the world, including to Somalia, Sudan, Bosnia, Pakistan, the Mideast, China, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, New Zealand and to the wreck of the Titanic. James served as a newsreader on the NBC Today Show and guest-anchored many NBC News programs.

James has been honoured with a Headliner Award for her report on a victim of the September 11 attacks, a Gracie for her story about methamphetamine addiction in women, an Emmy for coverage of the massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado, a National Press Club Award for her story on Sudanese slavery, and the Overseas Press Club of America Citation of Excellence for her report on Australia’s Stolen Generation.

James is Chair of the Australian-American Fulbright Commission, the Vice President of KCNQ2 Cure Alliance, and a co-founder of Genetic Epilepsy Team Australia.

James is the author of An American in Oz (Allen & Unwin), co-author of the New York Times’ reviewed The Best of Friends (HarperCollins) and editor of An Extraordinary School (ACER Press).

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