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Kevin Tibbles (born March 10, 1957 in Toronto, Ontario) is a network correspondent for NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt based in Chicago, Illinois. He is a graduate of Cedarbrae Collegiate in Scarborough, Ontario and holds a Bachelor of the Arts (Journalism) from Ryerson University in Toronto. While still a student Tibbles worked his first job in paid journalism for the company magazine at INCO in Thompson, Manitoba https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thompson,_Manitoba#:~:text=On%20March%2025%2C%201961%2C%20Inco%20formally%20opened%20the,operation%20in%20the%20world%20%28after%20Inco%27s%20Sudbury%20operations%29. This was several years before the

town was immortalized by the Canadian band The Tragically Hip in the song 'Thompson Girl' From there he sold freelance articles from extensive hitchhiking travel in Europe and North Africa to the youth oriented Sunshine News paper owned by the Toronto Sun. Tibbles was a reporter in several Canadian cities for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, including Toronto, Edmonton, Calgary and Montreal. He worked both as a network correspondent for the flagship evening news broadcast 'The National' and as a documentary journalist for the current affairs program 'The Journal' . While at the CBC Tibbles reported on the Valdez Oil Spill, reunification of Germany, the siege at Waco, Texas, the first Gulf War and the Los Angeles riots associated with the Rodney King trial.

In 1995 he joined the NBC network news division as a foreign correspondent based in the London bureau. While in London Tibbles was a regular contributor to Today and NBC Nightly News hosted Tom Brokaw. Assignments included the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo, the 'Troubles' in Northern Ireland and the Peace Accords, and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Tibbles broadcast live in December 1998 from a Baghdad rooftop during U.S. bombing raids entitled Operation Desert Fox .

Tibbles joined the networks Chicago bureau in 2000, filing from the Midwest and beyond. In the wake of 9-11 he was dispatched to Cairo where he tracked down and interviewed the father of hijacker Mohammed Atta. He also made numerous visits to Afghanistan and Iraq to report as the war on terror developed .

His experience domestically includes reporting from New Orleans during Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and from Chicago's Grant Park during the election victory of President Barak Obama. Tibbles helped create and report the series 'Meeting America' for NBC's Meet the Press, and he is a regular contributor to Nightly News with Lester Holt's series 'Inspiring America'.

Tibbles has 4 Emmy Awards and was an original recipient of the Ryerson School of Journalism's Headliner Award in 2013. He resides in Illinois.