EXPEDITION AFRICA Explorer Profile: Kevin. Premieres 5/31...

EXPEDITION AFRICA: STANLEY & LIVINGSTONE Season premiere: May 31 at 10pm/9c on HISTORY. As a pioneering multi-media journalist, Kevin often works as a one-man unit, traveling and reporting without a crew, and using portable digital technology to report and transmit his stories from trouble spots around the world, including the Middle East, South America, Central Asia and Eastern Europe. As the first-ever Yahoo! News correspondent, he traveled to every major armed conflict in the world from 2005 to 2006 and reported on the combatants, victims, causes and costs of these struggles. While reporting for CNN during the initial U.S. invasion of Iraq (2003), he and his team attempted to become the first western journalists to reach Tikrit and were briefly captured by Saddam Husseins Fedayeen militia and threatened with death. A native of Geneva, Ohio, Sites holds a master's degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. Hes also a certified Emergency Medical Technician and an avid scuba diver. Join other fans on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/History , follow us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/History_Daily and visit the official site http://www.history.com/expedition for info, games and more.