Bill Sammon was born and raised in Cleveland. Upon graduation
from Miami University in 1982, he joined the News-Herald, a suburban daily near
Cleveland, where he covered nuclear power and investigative projects.
In 1985, Bill Sammon won more awards from the Associated
Press Society of Ohio than any other reporter in the state. In 1990, after a
two-year stint as spokesman for a billion-dollar utility, he joined the staff of
the Plain Dealer in Cleveland. His stories of voter fraud at the Cuyahoga County
Board of Elections and corruption in other governmental agencies led to a
variety of federal and state investigations, and resulted in numerous criminal
convictions.
In 1995, Bill Sammon moved overseas to cover the civil war in
Bosnia for The Stars and Stripes. During the fall of Srebrenica--the worst
massacre in Europe since World War II--he was the only journalist to locate and
interview the American military officer who was secretly running a refugee camp
for survivors streaming out of the killing fields. Six months later, when
President Clinton and Congress authorized the deployment of U.S. forces, Bill
Sammon covered the historic crossing of the Sava River, and he rolled with the
troops into the snow-covered minefields of Bosnia. Over the next year, he
chronicled the cessation of hostilities, stumbled across previously undiscovered
mass graves, and traveled to the Hague for the opening of the first
international war crimes trial in half a century.
In August 1997, Bill Sammon moved back to the U.S. to become
a national investigative reporter for the Washington Times. He covered the
Teamsters tentacle of the Democratic fundraising scandal more thoroughly than
any other journalist in the country. His comprehensive coverage of corruption in
the nation's largest labor union were nominated by the Times for a Pulitzer
Prize.
In 1998, Bill Sammon was turned loose on the Monica Lewinsky
scandal. By September he was named senior White House correspondent, and covered
the impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton. His office in the White House
provided him with a ringside seat to proceedings.
Bill Sammon is a frequent guest on numerous television talk
shows, including: Hardball with Chris Matthews on CNBC; The McLaughlin Group on
NBC; Morning Line on MSNBC; The Crier Report on Fox News Channel; and Washington
Journal on C-SPAN. He also appears on radio talk shows in the U.S. and abroad.
