Robert John Jamieson, known as Bob Jamieson, was a television news correspondent for ABC News

ABC News

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 until January 2008. After getting his start in local news in St. Louis

St. Louis, Missouri

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 and Chicago, he joined NBC

NBC

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's national news bureau in 1971. There he reported on a variety of national and international news, including several conflicts in the Middle East

Middle East

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. Jamieson was a frequent substitute news anchor on Today throughout the 1980s, and served as the anchor of NBC News at Sunrise

NBC News at Sunrise

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from 1986 to January 1987. From March 1987 to September 1988, he hosted Before Hours, a 15-minute early morning business news program that was a joint production of NBC News and the Wall Street Journal. He joined ABC

American Broadcasting Company

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 in 1990.

He is a son of the late Robert Arthur Jamieson, a Scottish immigrant who was a prominent citizen of Peoria, Illinois

Peoria, Illinois

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Bob Jamieson studied at Knox College but completed his bachelor's degree at Bradley University

Bradley University

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. In 1996 Knox awarded him an honorary Doctor of Letters degree.