Jim Gardner Biography

Fast Facts

• Has sponsored the Jim Gardner Scholarship at Temple University for students studying journalism each year in 1987
• Was named Person of the Year by the Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia in 1996 and inducted into the organization's Hall of Fame in 2003
• Graduated from Columbia University, where he reported on the 1968 student riots for the school's radio station, in 1970
• Started out as a desk assistant and writer for WINS Radio in New York in 1970
• Worked as a reporter and news director at WFAS Radio and as a reporter for WKBW-TV in the 1970s before joining "Action News" in 1977
• Best known as a news anchor for "Action News" on WPVI-TV in Philadelphia, Penn
• Has covered every Democratic and Republican political convention since 1980 and interviewed every President since 1976