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Ron Allen

Ron Allen is an NBC News correspondent based in New York. His reports appear on “NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams,” “Today,” and MSNBC. He joined NBC News in 1996, and since then has covered a wide range of national and international stories, most recently the historic 2008 U.S. Presidential election campaign.

Ron moved to New York in 2003 after 11 years as a foreign correspondent based in London for ABC News from 1992 to 1996 before joining NBC. He has traveled to more than 75 countries, and spent a considerable amount of time in hotspots such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Balkans, Israel and the Palestinian territories, and across Africa.

Ron’s work with reporting teams has earned many of journalism’s highest honors, including 6 OPC Awards, 4 Emmys, 2 Robert F. Kennedy Awards, 2 George Foster Peabody Awards, and a Columbia Dupont Award. The National Association of Black Journalists named him journalist of the year in 1996. Ron has a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in political science from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the University’s Board of Overseers, the Board of the OPC, and Leadership Council of the Committee to Protect Journalists.