- 1. Career
GRIFFIN
Jennifer
Journalist at Fox News Channel
Organization: Fox News Channel
Profession: Journalist
Biography
Jennifer Griffin is an American journalist who works as national security correspondent at the Pentagon for Fox News. She joined Fox News in October 1999 as a Jerusalem-based correspondent. Prior to that she reported for three years from Moscow for Fox News.
Since 2007 Griffin has reported daily from the Pentagon where she questions senior military leaders, travels to war zones with the Joint Chiefs and Secretaries of Defense, and reports on all aspects of the military and the current wars against ISIS and Al Qaeda. Jennifer is coauthor of This Burning Land: Lessons from the Front Lines of the Transformed Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.
Career
Before working at the Pentagon, Griffin was based in Jerusalem, Israel and provided coverage of the Second Palestinian Intifada, suicide bombings, military incursions and failed peace deals. In 2000, she provided on-site coverage of Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon, its withdrawal from the Gaza strip in 2005 and Yasser Arafat’s funeral. In 2009, Griffin conducted a rare interview with former Prime Minister of Israel Ariel Sharon before he lapsed into a coma.
In 2004, Griffin was among the first reporters to arrive in the wake of the South-East Asia tsunami tragedy, reporting from Phuket and Khao Lak, Thailand.
After college, Griffin reported for The Sowetan newspaper in Johannesburg, South Africa, where she covered Nelson Mandela's prison release and major historical developments in South Africa's transition away from apartheid.