Bob Jamieson

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Robert John Jamieson is an American former television news correspondent for ABC News until January 2008. After getting his start in local news in St. Louis and Chicago, he joined NBC's national news bureau in 1971. There he reported on a variety of national and international news, including several conflicts in the Middle East. Jamieson was a frequent substitute news anchor on Today throughout the 1980s, filled in as anchor on NBC Nightly News, and served as the anchor of NBC News at Sunrise 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 in 1990.

He is a son of Robert Arthur Jamieson, a Scottish immigrant who was a prominent citizen of Peoria, Illinois.^[1] His elder brother was Dick Jamieson, a professional football coach.

Bob Jamieson studied at Knox College but completed his bachelor's degree at Bradley University. In 1996 Knox awarded him an honorary Doctor of Letters degree.