A 27-year veteran of ABC News, Jim Hickey has been an anchor and a correspondent for ABC News Radio since 1995 and is currently the National Correspondent for the ABC Radio Network. Hickey was in the anchor chair for ABC News Radio’s special coverage of the terrorist attacks on September 11th, and as National Correspondent has reported extensively on the war on terrorism. In 2005, Hickey won a Murrow Award for the Best Use of Sound in the network radio division. He has also been nominated for a National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Award.
Prior to joining ABC News Radio, Hickey was a foreign correspondent for the ABC Television Network from 1980-1995. For ten of those years, he covered worldwide news events from his assignments in Germany, South Africa and Italy. Hickey worked at television stations in Philadelphia, Atlanta, Columbus, Georgia and Kalamazoo, Michigan. He was a Lieutenant in the US Army from 1970-1972 and was the Radio-TV Information Officer for Fort Benning, Georgia. He also was the action officer for the filming of Pentagon sponsored TV commercials introducing the All Volunteer Army (VOLAR). Hickey’s broadcasting career began as a freshman at WMU working for WIDR, WMU’s campus radio station.
He is currently the Chairman of the Communication Council at Monmouth, an advisory board for the university’s Department of Communication. Hickey received an Honorary Doctorate of Public Service degree from WMU. He has also been inducted into the School of Communication’s Alumni Academy and serves on the its External Advisory Board.