Cami McCormick Seriously Wounded By IED – Legendary CBS reporter Cami McCormick was seriously wounded by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan that killed a U.S. soldier beside her.

Cami McCormick seriously wounded in Afghanistan

New York-based CBS correspondent Cami McCormick, 47, was injured in Afghanistan’s Logar province where she had been covering the recent elections.

Cami McCormick CBS reporter

CBS reported McCormick was initially treated at a field hospital, where she underwent surgery to stabilize her condition, and was then transported to Bagram Air Base near Kabul for additional treatment.

Cami McCormick reporting from Afghanistan

Cami McCormick has been an eyewitness reporter covering many major news events around the world during the last three decades.

Cami McCormick of CBS News

Her accomplishments in the field are legendary:

  • Early in McCormick’s career, she covered the fall of the Berlin Wall and the break-up of the Soviet Union. In the early 1990’s, she worked as a reporter in Moscow and was one of the first English-language hosts on a commercial radio station in Russia.
  • Prior to CBS, McCormick worked for CNN, CNN International, Headline News and CNNRadio. She reported on the death of Princess Diana from London and the deployment of U.S. troops to Bosnia.
  • She also developed, anchored and produced CNNRadio’s first international newscast, The CNNRadio World News Report. Heard in more than 100 countries, it was the winner of the Edward R. Murrow award for “Best Network Newscast” in 1998.
  • McCormick joined CBS News in September, 1998. She has won numerous awards for her reporting on some of the biggest stories since that time. She was at Ground Zero on September 11, 2001, in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina wiped out its levees, and in the Gulf region for the start of the war in Iraq.
  • McCormick has traveled throughout Iraq many times since the U.S. invasion and has covered the Middle East for years.
  • She was in Ramallah at the funeral for Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. She reported from Nablus and Bethlehem during the Israeli incursions of 2001. She has also reported from Gaza and Beirut.
  • McCormick has been the personal recipient of five Edward R. Murrow awards and a contributor to more than a half a dozen others.
  • Other honors include two AWRT “Gracie Allen Awards” for September 11th and Iraq war coverage, two Associated Press Awards, a CableAce Award for reporting on Boris Yeltsin’s re-election as Russian President and a Sigma Delta Chi Award for her coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.

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