Jim Young, Reuters staff photographer based in Washington D. C.
Jim started working as a part-time darkroom technician and weekend photographer at the Halifax Chronicle-Herald just days after graduating with an Accounting degree from Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. In October 1994, he moved to Ottawa to start freelancing for the Ottawa Sun and The Canadian Press. In October 1997, Jim moved over to Reuters to cover everything from politics, general and international news and sports.
Days after finishing a Canadian election campaign in July 2004, and still unpacked from being on the road, Jim got a call to fly to Pittsburgh to join up on my first U.S. campaign with Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry, and over the next four months, he was back and fourth every couple of weeks to cover the campaign. In October 2005, Jim was hired for a posting in Washington, D. C. to cover the White House for Reuters.
With hundreds of thousands of miles of travel, visiting 50 countries over the last 18 years covering politics and is now on his third passport in 5 years. He has covered all kind of campaigns and news all over the world. Jim has had a front row seat to political history – from the silliness of Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien, to the tremendous story of a junior Senator from Chicago rise to become the first African American President in U.S. history.
Jim will compare and contrast the life of covering Canadian versus U.S. politics and show images from our daily files from in-town and international travels and the inner workings of speed and physical demands of being a White House travel pool photographer. From flying on Air Force One to the Oval Office and secret Presidential trips to Iraq and Afghanistan, Jim will give an inside look into world’s largest political machine.