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Jim Strickland's Biography

Posted: 2:20 pm EDT April 14, 2009Updated: 8:55 am EDT April 29, 2009

Award-winning Consumer Investigator Jim Strickland is on the alert wherever scam artists lurk.

Jim's investigations have led to corporate shake-ups and federal raids on offending businesses. One of Jim's groundbreaking investigations led to sweeping regulation of Atlanta's car booting industry.

Jim has nearly three decades of broadcasting experience.

While an anchor in Des Moines, Iowa, Jim broke the story of Iowa's McCaughey septuplets and was first to interview the children's father, Kenny McCaughey.

Jim is a six-time Emmy winner, and the first ever Journalist of the Year named during the Georgia Livesaving Awards.

The Associated Press has named him Georgia's best specialized reporter a half dozen times.

You can contact Jim at jim.strickland@wsbtv.com.

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