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Jennifer Griffin

Jennifer Griffin

Jennifer Griffin is the National Security Correspondent for FOX News Channel (FNC). She has been based at the Pentagon covering military and intelligence matters since March 2007.

Griffin joined FNC in October 1999 as a correspondent for the Jerusalem bureau providing coverage of the Middle East including the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, countless suicide bombings, military incursions and failed peace deals. She provided on site coverage of Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon in 2000, its withdrawal from the Gaza strip and Yasser Arafat’s funeral. Also, Griffin is credited with conducting a rare interview with Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel.

During her tenure at FNC, she has covered Operation Enduring Freedom from Israel and the ongoing Israeli/Palestinian conflict in the Middle East. In 2004, Griffin provided extensive on-site coverage in the wake of the South-East Asia tsunami tragedy from Phuket, Thailand.

Prior to joining FNC, Griffin covered the Middle East region for several American media organizations including the Associated Press, National Public Radio and U.S. News and World Report. Previously, she reported for The Sowetan newspaper in Johannesburg, South Africa, where she covered Nelson Mandela's prison release and numerous other historic moments in South Africa's transition away from apartheid.

A graduate of Harvard University in 1992, Griffin received a Bachelor’s degree in comparative politics. She and her husband, Greg Myre, recently wrote a book, “This Burning Land: Lessons from the Frontlines of the Transformed Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,” about their time in Israel. Griffin and her husband have two daughters and a son.