Jim Blue is an award-winning news director, anchor, and reporter. Since February, 2009, Jim has served as the News Director and Primary Anchor for the newly established news operation at WFFT, FOX Fort Wayne. Jim spearheaded the creation of the station's first news broadcast, hiring a complete staff, overseeing the construction of a set and newsroom, and training the production staff from scratch. FOX Fort Wayne News, First at 10 debuted on April 6, 2009, seven short weeks after Jim walked in the door. The broadcast has been a success story attracting national attention.

From September, 2002 until June, 2008 Jim served as primary weekday anchor of NBC24 news at 6, 7, 7:30, and 11 p.m. In 2006 the Ohio Associated Press Broadcasters honored Jim as Best Anchor in Ohio. In August, 2007, Jim was the first journalist to shoot underwater video of the Wreck of the Gen. Anthony Wayne which sank in 1850 in Lake Erie. The Wayne, discovered in Sept. 2006, is the earliest steamship wreck in Lake Erie. 

In September, 2005, Jim travelled to the Persian Gulf to report on the deployment of Toledo's 180th Fighter Wing in the Iraq War.

In May, 2005, Jim broadcast live from 30 feet underwater as members of Toledo's Dive Rescue team demonstrated how to recover a victim from a sunken automobile.

In 2004, he was honored with a first place for Best Enterprise Reporting by Associated Press for his investigation of internet sex predators. The story also was recognized with an Emmy nomination.

Before NBC24 Jim was the primary anchor for the ABC affiliate in Columbia, S.C. Jim has more than 25 years experience as a broadcast journalist.

One month after the September 11, 2001 attacks, Jim traveled to Afghanistan to report on America’s war on terror. His stories on the humanitarian food drops to the Afghani people garnered Jim an Emmy nomination. Jim has also reported from many of the world’s hotspots, including Bosnia, Macedonia, and Rwanda.

Jim won an Emmy award for live coverage of the search for a missing Dayton, Ohio, girl. He has won numerous other awards recognizing his investigative reports.

When he isn’t at work, Jim enjoys sail boating, scuba diving, and flying.