ABC News President Ben Sherwood announced on Friday, February 24 that Nick Schifrin would be moving to London.  His note to the ABC News staff is below:

From: Sherwood, Ben Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 To: ABC News ALL Subject: Nick Schifrin

I am pleased to announce that after years of excellent reporting from Afghanistan and Pakistan, Nick Schifrin will move to our London bureau next month.

As you know, Nick has reported from the South Asia for almost four years. Last year after US forces killed Osama bin Laden, he was the first Western journalist to arrive in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Most memorably, he delivered one of the biggest exclusives of 2011 - a look inside bin Laden's secret compound and the bedroom where the Al Qaeda leader was killed.

From his first days at ABC News, Nick has distinguished himself as a tireless, brave and committed journalist. In 2002, he joined us as an overnight desk assistant and worked his way up to become a producer in New York. His first overseas assignment was in India.

In 2001, Nick was an undergrad at Columbia University and editor of the school paper. On a September morning he was in a Shakespeare class when word came that planes had hit the World Trade Center. When class met again several days later, the professor gave an emotional speech about the 9/11 attacks, about Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, and about its theme of the desire for revenge. A decade later. Nick wrote "Reading Shakespeare In Kandahar," a powerful essay published in Foreign Policy about his own journey from that classroom to bin Laden's lair.

Nick's adventures now take him to London where he joins a talented group of correspondents. Together, they will tell more great stories and give our viewers a big picture understanding of the most important events around the world.

Please join me in congratulating Nick and wishing him the best on his new assignment.