Jeffrey Kofman
— -- Jeffrey Kofman is a London-based correspondent for ABC News. He reports from around the globe for the network's broadcasts and digital platforms, including "World News With Diane Sawyer," "Nightline" and "Good Morning America." Before his assignment overseas, Kofman was based in Miami, covering Florida, the Caribbean and Latin America.
Most recently, he was one of the first American news correspondents on the scene when the Chilean mine collapsed in August, and he reported from the scene during the historic 10-week rescue effort. Kofman also played a prominent role in ABC News' coverage of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, scoring numerous exclusives for the network, including the first television interview with BP CEO Tony Hayward.
Since joining ABC News in January 2001, Kofman has traveled extensively to report on developing stories and political events in Florida and the southeast, and more than 20 countries in the Western Hemisphere. He has traveled extensively through some of the most remote regions of South and Central America. He has covered every major hurricane of the past decade and reported from New Orleans before, during and after Hurricane Katrina hit the area in 2005.
Kofman has also traveled well beyond his region, including six tours in the Middle East since Sept. 11, 2001; four in Iraq; one as an embedded reporter aboard an aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea during the war in Afghanistan; and one in Pakistan during the kidnapping and murder of Daniel Pearl.
While in Iraq, Kofman was embedded with U.S. Marines in the southern part of the country. He also traveled extensively to some of the most troubled regions, including Fallujah and Samarra. In July 2003 he reported on the declining morale of U.S. troops in the region as their tours of duty kept getting extended. The story was picked up by outlets around the world when one soldier called on Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to resign.
Kofman's reporting regularly takes him to Latin America and the Caribbean. He has developed a specialty in original reporting from the Americas, including stories on obscure but important cancer research in Ecuador and environmental reports from Patagonia, the Galapagos, the Andes and the Amazon. Kofman rode horses into the mountains of Mexico to look at the wintering grounds of millions of Monarch butterflies; he lived with researchers on a remote island in Southern Chile as they studied a previously unknown population of blue whales, the largest mammals on earth; he flew with American environmentalist/millionaire Doug Tompkins through Patagonia for a look at the massive private parks Tompkins is assembling to preserve the wilderness in that region; and he biked down the World's Most Dangerous Road, which has become Bolivia's biggest tourist attraction.
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