Steve Harrigan is a television news correspondent

Correspondent

A correspondent or on-the-scene reporter is a journalist or commentator, or more general speaking, an agent who contributes reports to a newspaper, or radio or television news, or another type of company, from a remote, often distant, location. A foreign correspondent is stationed in a foreign...

 who worked on foreign assignments for CNN News before joining Fox News as a Middle East

Middle East

The Middle East is a region that encompasses Western Asia and Northern Africa. It is often used as a synonym for Near East, in opposition to Far East...

 correspondent

Correspondent

A correspondent or on-the-scene reporter is a journalist or commentator, or more general speaking, an agent who contributes reports to a newspaper, or radio or television news, or another type of company, from a remote, often distant, location. A foreign correspondent is stationed in a foreign...

 in October 2001. His home is in Miami, Florida.

Harrigan reported on Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina

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 from Gulfport, Mississippi

Gulfport, Mississippi

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; Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan

Afghanistan

Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...

; and on conflicts between Israelis and Palestinian

Palestinian people

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s. Before working at Fox, he was at CNN in Moscow "where he reported from inside the Kremlin when then Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev resigned in 1991, and covered the Chechen War". CNN's Moscow bureau received the Peabody Award

Peabody Award

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, DuPont Award, and Kaplan Award for excellence in reporting while he was with the network.

Harrigan reported from Georgia

Georgia (country)

Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...

 when it was involved in combat with Russia in 2008 and had to run to escape after being targeted by gunfire at one point.
Harrigan reported from Haiti in 2010 after a major earthquake.

Harrigan has filed reports from 80 different countries--more than any other Fox News correspondent.

Harrigan graduated from Duke University

Duke University

Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...

 and holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature

Comparative literature

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. He is fluent in the Russian language

Russian language

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.

Libya Controversy

On March 21, 2011 CNN

CNN

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 foreign correspondent Nic Robertson

Nic Robertson

Nic Robertson is a Senior International Correspondent at CNN.Nic started his career in broadcasting in 1984 within the engineering arm of the UK's Independent Broadcasting Authority He then worked as an engineer with TV-AM until 1989.Nic began his career at CNN in 1989, starting as a satellite...

 criticized Harrigan's coverage of Operation Odyssey Dawn

Operation Odyssey Dawn

Operation Odyssey Dawn was the U.S. code name for the US part of the international military operation in Libya to enforce United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973. during the initial period of 19–31 March 2011, which continued afterwards under NATO command as Operation Unified Protector...

 and allegations that the Libyan government had used foreign journalists as human shields against a coalition air-strike on Mummar Gaddafi's compound in Tripoli. The controversy arose when Harrigan refused to take part of a trip organized by the Libyan government to inspect the site of the attack. According to Robertson, the Fox News team sent a non-editorial member of their staff instead of Harrigan.