Bestselling Author; CNN's Chief National Security Correspondent & Anchor of The Brief.
Jim Sciutto: Biography at a Glance
- Jim Sciutto is CNN's chief national security correspondent and anchor of The Brief with Jim Sciutto on CNN International and CNN Max.
- Sciutto reports and provides analysis across the network's programs and platforms on all aspects of U.S. national security, including foreign policy, the military, the intelligence community, and the ongoing Russia investigation.
- His NYT Bestseller, The Return of Great Powers, explores the definitive break between the post–Cold War era and an entirely new and uncertain one based on the insights he gained through multiple assignments in China, Russia, Europe, and Asia.
- Sciutto's book, The Shadow War: Inside Russia's and China's Secret Operations to Defeat America, reveals the invisible fronts that make up 21st-century warfare, from disinformation campaigns to advanced satellite weapons.
- He has reported from throughout Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and the Arctic with the U.S. military and senior U.S. leaders and played a key role in CNN's overseas coverage of the Charlie Hebdo and Paris terrorist attacks in France and the violent elections in Ukraine.
- Sciutto's one-hour CNN special, Targeting Terror: Inside the Intelligence War, was recognized with a Headliner Award.
- He was also awarded the George Polk Award and a citation for Excellence from the Overseas Press Club for his undercover reporting from Myanmar, and his reporting for the series Iraq: Where Things Stand was recognized with an Emmy Award for two consecutive years.
Media
- CNN: Jim Sciutto
- Book: Against Us
- Book: The Shadow War
- Article: CNN National Security Reporter Jim Sciutto Named Morning News Anchor
- Article: CNN Exclusive: US extracted top spy from inside Russia in 2017
- Axios: CNN anchor Jim Sciutto writes book exploring world's new "1939 moment"
- NY Times: What’s the Quickest Path to World War III?
- Book Review: What’s the Quickest Path to World War III?
Videos
Biography
Jim Sciutto is CNN’s chief national security analyst and anchor of The Brief with Jim Sciutto weekdays at 6 pm ET on CNN International and CNN Max.
Sciutto reports and provides analysis on all aspects of U.S. national security, including foreign policy, the military, the intelligence community, and the State Department.
Throughout his career, he has reported from more than 50 countries across the globe, including dozens of assignments from inside Iraq, Afghanistan, and Iran, as well as multiple assignments in Ukraine and the Middle East.
Sciutto is the author of four books, including the New York Times Bestseller, The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China and the Next World War, published in 2024 by Dutton Books, which examines the breakdown of a decades-old international order among the world’s strongest powers. He also wrote The Shadow War, published in 2019, on Russian and Chinese efforts to undermine the U.S., and an inside look at President Trump’s foreign policy, entitled The Madman Theory: Trump Takes on the World, published in 2020, both by Harper Collins. His first book, Against Us: The New Face of America’s Enemies in the Muslim World, analyzes the driving forces behind Islamic radicalization.
Among the honors Sciutto’s work has earned are the duPont-Colombia Award, Emmy Awards, the Edward R. Murrow Award, the George Polk Award, and the White House Correspondence Association’s Merriman Smith Award for excellence in presidential coverage.
Prior to joining CNN, Sciutto served as ABC News’ senior foreign correspondent, based in London, and the Hong Kong-based correspondent for Asia Business News. Sciutto began his career as the moderator and producer of a weekly public affairs talk show on PBS.
Sciutto has also served as chief of staff and senior advisor to the U.S. Ambassador to China, Gary Locke.
He is a graduate of Yale University, where he studied Chinese history, and was a Fulbright Fellow in Hong Kong. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and an associate fellow at Pierson College at Yale. Sciutto was appointed a Senior Fellow at Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs.
Sciutto is married to Gloria Riviera-Sciutto, a journalist and podcaster. They have three children and live in Washington, DC.
Topics
The Return of Great Powers: Mapping Global Conflict in the 21st Century
What connects the Russian invasion of Ukraine, China’s ongoing threat to Taiwan, the growing alliance among Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran, America’s retreat from Europe and NATO, and its threats to Greenland, Canada, and Panama? Together, they signal the return of great power competition and the end of the rules-based international order that has kept the peace among the world’s great powers for more than eighty years since World War Two. Drawing from his NYT best-selling book and NYT Notable Books selection The Return of Great Powers as well as his anchoring and reporting for CNN, CNN Anchor and Chief National Security Analyst Jim Sciutto connects the dots among seemingly disconnected events around the world to paint a picture of a world on the brink of great power conflict and an America in retreat from its century-old role as superpower defender of the world order.
Sciutto takes listeners to the front lines of this great power conflict based on his on-the-ground reporting from the war in Ukraine, Taiwan, the Mideast and beyond, as well as his service as a senior US diplomat in Beijing. He’ll explain the potential flashpoints of conflict as well as the new technologies transforming the battlefield from drones to cyber-attacks to space weapons to AI. Finally, drawing on countless interviews with leaders and officials around the world, he maps out “paths to peace” to avoid open conflict. Sciutto engages listeners with both a journalist’s eye based on nearly three decades living and reporting around the world, and a historian’s analysis, as the author of four books on international affairs and his position teaching at Yale’s Jackson School of Global Affairs.
What Keeps US Spies Up at Night: America’s (and the World’s) Five Biggest National Security Threats
Experienced national security officials warn that they have never seen the range and severity of national security crises they’re witnessing today. The United States and the West face an ever-growing and daunting slate of foreign policy challenges: a nuclear North Korea as well as nuclear advancement in Iran and the Gulf; an increasingly aggressive China and Russia; instability and division in Europe and the need to address global concerns such as climate change, cybersecurity, and the advance of new technologies including artificial intelligence and space weapons.
CNN Chief National Security Correspondent and Anchor Jim Sciutto gives a global overview of risks and opportunities to be on the lookout for in the upcoming year. This tour around the world is very effective for business audiences investing worldwide. As a foreign correspondent based in Europe, the Middle East and Asia for more than two decades, the former chief of staff to the U.S. Ambassador to China, and now covering national security for CNN, Sciutto provides a unique, on-the-ground perspective from each crisis zone around the globe and far beyond the news desk.
The Shadow War
Jim Sciutto, CNN Anchor and Chief National Security Correspondent, reveals the invisible fronts of a twenty-first century war underway on the US and takes audiences right to the frontlines of battles being waged—often without the public’s full knowledge—from cyber attacks to disinformation campaigns to ground invasions in Europe to war in space.
The United States is currently under attack from multiple adversaries—yet most Americans have no idea of the dangers threatening us. In this eye-opening presentation based on his book, Sciutto traces the expanding web of attacks that together amount to an undeclared but deeply dangerous war on America. America is engaged in a Shadow War on multiple fronts, with multiple enemies, principally Russia and China, whose aim is to weaken and overcome the United States and the global system it has built and defended since the end of World War Two. But unlike conventional warfare, these conflicts are conducted in the shadows, with no formal declaration. In fact, The Shadow War is designed explicitly to remain below the threshold of a shooting war with the US.
Sciutto takes audiences on the ground to several fronts of this war - from a spy plane over the South China Sea to a nuclear submarine under the Arctic to the battlefields of Eastern Ukraine, inside Russia’s 2016 election interference and China’s ongoing theft of US secrets right up into space, where Russia and China are deploying space weapons – all skirmishes in a new and much larger superpower war.
But America is adapting and fighting back. In The Shadow War, Sciutto introduces the dizzying array of soldiers, sailors, submariners and their commanders, space engineers, computer scientists, and civilians who are on the front lines of this new kind of forever war. Understand how these countries and governments, particularly Russia and China, are conducting these attacks, creating national security, business risks and risks to America’s democracy.
The US-China Trade War
The US-China trade war has upended the world’s most crucial economic relationship and threatened to send the world economy into recession. For two years, Jim Sciutto was at the center of the US-China trade dispute while Chief of Staff to the US Ambassador to China and in the years since then, covering the broader relationship as Chief National Security Correspondent and Anchor for CNN, including multiple assignments in China and interviews with US and Chinese officials. At the core are differences that each country sees as essential to its economic health and national security – differences that are therefore difficult to impossible to resolve without concessions that both countries are loth to make. In addition, domestic political pressure in both countries prevent US and Chinese leaders from being perceived as caving to pressure from the other side. The combination makes progress on a wide-ranging deal difficult, with enormous implications for the US, China and the world.
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