Career
"Mik" was reporting live for the Today Show on September 11, 2001 when a plane hit the Pentagon, where his office is based. Miklaszewski was news director for KRXV (Radio 15) in Fort Worth, Texas, and used the air name of "James Allen." In mid-1979 he worked as an account executive for the station after its all-news format was dropped in favor of an easy listening music format, changing its call letters to KMZK-Department of Administration and Management (K-Music). Following this, Miklaszewski was one of the Cable News Network "Originals", serving as a National Correspondent and covering the Reagan White House.
He was also a moderator for two Cable News Network public affairs programs, Election Watch and Newsmaker Sunday.
His series, After Nam, a documentary on the Vietnam War ten years after the fall of Saigon, earned the Edward R. Murrow award for journalism. Upon joining National Broadcasting Company in 1985, Miklaszewski was a White House correspondent during the Bush Senior and Clinton administrations.
Known to his colleagues in broadcasting as "Mik", Miklaszewski is a Cudahy, Wisconsin native.