Today’s News Hunk: James Longman!

Okay, James Longman of ABC News is one of the hunkier reporters on television as this photo he posted on Instagram earlier today reminds us.

A foreign correspondent for ABC news since 2017. he’s so much more than beefcake. Here are some highlights from his most impressive ABC News bio:

Based in London, his work takes him all over the world — to date, more than 45 countries and counting. He has covered some of the most important international events of our time. He was in Moscow when Vladimir Putin declared war on Ukraine and spent a month reporting from the Russian capital with the situation deteriorating by the day. He then spent more than 12 weeks in Ukraine and was one of the first reporters to see firsthand the horrors in Bucha. From the fight against the Islamic State group on the Syrian front line, confronting Chechen authorities about abuses against LGBTQ+ people, terror attacks across Europe and further abroad to tagging humpback whales in the Antarctic, Longman has one of the most varied briefs in American network news.

He was the first U.S. network reporter at the Thai cave where the soccer team went missing and was the first to interview them after their rescue.

During the coronavirus crisis, he traveled to more than 15 countries to document the unfolding pandemic while millions were on lockdown. Longman also fronted the National Geographic special “Virus Hunters,” in which he traveled around the world to meet front-line researchers working to stop the next pandemic. An adventure that took him from bat caves in Liberia to the pig farms of the American Midwest, “Virus Hunters” aired in 173 countries in over 40 languages.