Terry McCarthy

CBS News Correspondent

(CBS)  Terry McCarthy has been named a CBS News correspondent based in Los Angeles. In this role, McCarthy will report on foreign news for CBS News broadcasts across the network.

McCarthy has done some of the most in-depth and compelling reporting from around the globe in times of peace and conflict.

Most recently, McCarthy was ABC News' principal Iraq correspondent. He covered the execution of Saddam Hussein, the battle for Baghdad and the U.S. troop surge under General Petraeus. He traveled throughout Iraq covering the war from the U.S. military and the Iraqi civilian perspectives, for which he won an Emmy Award in 2007. McCarthy also reported on Islamic radicals in Jordan, life along the Yangtze River in China, the North Korean nuclear threat, swine flu in Mexico and hurricanes in the Caribbean.

Prior to joining ABC News, McCarthy was the Los Angeles bureau chief for TIME magazine. His reports included the submarine sinking of a Japanese tourist boat off Hawaii, the Green River serial killer in Seattle, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska and polygamy in Utah. He also followed the Lewis and Clark Trail across the Lolo Pass from Montana to Idaho, wrote about conservation of wilderness areas in Asia and saving big cats in Africa and reported on protecting the desert environment in Arizona.

Post 9/11, McCarthy covered the war in Afghanistan, where he opened TIME's Kabul office, and later went to Kuwait to follow the troops into Iraq in 2003. After the fall of Saddam Hussein, he set up TIME's bureau in Baghdad. His first forays into television came in Iraq, where he was part of the ABC News/TIME team that reported the special series "Iraq, Where Things Stand", which won two Emmy Awards in 2003 and 2004.

McCarthy began his reporting career working for the Irish Press in Dublin in 1984. He left Ireland to cover the civil wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua and the earthquake in Mexico City in 1985. He then became Southeast Asia correspondent for the Independent of London, covering the war in Cambodia, the military coup in Burma, and the opening up of Vietnam. From Bangkok he moved to Tokyo to cover Japan and Korea as the Independent's Tokyo bureau chief.

After moving to New York in 1995, McCarthy wrote for The New Yorker and the British satirical magazine Punch before joining TIME magazine. He traveled back to Asia to open TIME's Shanghai bureau in 1998 and became their roving East Asia correspondent. He reported from Beijing, Hong Kong, Manila, Saigon, Dili, Jakarta, Phnom Penh, Saipan and covered the fall of Suharto in Indonesia, the death of Pol Pot, East Timor's independence and the rapid emergence of China as a world power.