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Tom Foreman is a reporter for CNN in the United States. He is a graduate of Troy University. Foreman is a correspondent in CNN's Washington news bureau, and anchors the segments This Week at War and This Week in Politics.
Foreman joined CNN in 2004 and is based in the Washington, D.C. bureau where he covers a wide-range of topics for the network and can be seen reporting for programs including Anderson Cooper 360° and The Situation Room.
In 2005, Foreman won a National Headliner Award for a feature about an American soldier who brought the Christmas spirit to a Luxembourg town during World War II.
Foreman’s reporting career began at a small radio station in Alabama while he was still in high school. After college, he worked for WSFA in Montgomery, Ala., and then for WWL-TV, the CBS affiliate in New Orleans, where he worked as a reporter. For 10 years, he worked as a roving reporter for them from its Denver bureau. His international experience has taken him through more than 20 countries for coverage of earthquakes, civil wars, economic upheavals and social unrest.
Foreman moved to Washington in 2000 to become the senior anchor for National Geographic and managing editor for Inside Base Camp, for which he won an Emmy award as best interviewer.
Foreman graduated magna cum laude from Troy State University.
On Saturday, January 19, 2013, Foreman admitted to writing a letter to President Obama every day over the previous four years—1,460 letters, totaling more than a half-million words.[1]
Controversy
Foreman came under fire from the left after producing a segment for Anderson Cooper 360° which criticized Barack Obama's first press conference as President-Elect.[2]
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