Ronald Eldridge Claiborne (born August 20, 1953) is a retired American journalist and correspondent for

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. He was the "more news reporter" for the weekend edition of ''

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'', anchored by Dan Harris and

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Early life

Ronald Eldridge Claiborne was born in

San Francisco, California San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...

on August 20, 1953. He attended and graduated from

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

with a B.A. in psychology and a master's degree from the

Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is located in Pulitzer Hall on the university's Morningside Heights campus in New York City. Founded in 1912 by Joseph Pulitzer, Columbia Journalism School is one of the oldest journalism s ...

. Claiborne's journalism career began when he first worked at an independent newspaper based in

Richmond, California Richmond is a city in western Contra Costa County, California, United States. The city was municipal corporation, incorporated on August 7, 1905, and has a Richmond, California City Council, city council.

Career

Claiborne worked as general assignment correspondent for independent WNYW-TV in New York City. Claiborne was also a reporter for the

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(1980–1982). He covered areas such as metropolitan news, city politics and city hall and state government. During the late 1970s, Claiborne served as reporter and editor for the United Press International wire service. Claiborne joined

in 1986 as a general assignment correspondent based in Boston and he frequently reported and contributed to

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, Nightline and

. He covered a wide variety of stories for ABC News, topics includes the legalization of gay marriages in Massachusetts; the Boston Catholic Church scandal in 2002; the Elian Gonzales custody battle; the Yugosalavia conflict in Belgrade; the

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and both the 1992 and 2008 U.S. presidential campaigns where he covered Senator John McCain's campaign. Claiborne retired from ABC News and ''Good Morning America'' in September 2018.

Awards

Claiborne was awarded an Emmy in 2000, for his coverage of the seizure of Elian Gonzales in Miami.

References

External links

ABC News website biography
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