Michael Smerconish is an American radio host, political commentator, author, television presenter and lawyer who hosts The Michael Smerconish Program on SiriusXM’s POTUS Channel and a weekly program on CNN and CNN International. (more…)
Fredricka Whitfield is an American journalist, news anchor and reporter who currently anchors the weekend edition of CNN Newsroom from CNN’s world headquarters in Atlanta, and she is also a fill-in and substitute anchor for CNN’s At This Hour With Kate Bolduan. After graduation, Whitfield held positions at KTVT-TV in Fort Worth, WTNH in New Haven, Connecticut, WCIV in Charleston, South Carolina, WPLG-TV in Miami, and NewsChannel 8 in Washington, D.C. She then joined NBC News as a correspondent, working for NBC Nightly News in Atlanta from 1995 to 2001. She was an assignment reporter and an anchor in the morning and afternoon for Today and other NBC news shows. (more…)
Lynda Kinkade is an Australian journalist, anchor and reporter currently working at CNN’s World Headquarters located in Atlanta, Georgia. She has anchored the weekend editions of CNN International’s Newsroom and once anchored several weekday programs, filling in on the European primetime show since August 2014. According to reports, she has written a great deal on the Trump administration, the impeachment investigation that followed, and Russian meddling in the 2016 election. As the anchor of CNN’s breaking news coverage on CNN/U.S. and CNN International following the 2015 Paris terror attacks, Kinkade helped the network win the 2016 Royal Television Society award for Best Breaking News Coverage. One of the most popular articles on CNN Digital in 2017 was Kinkade’s gripping exposé on the opioid problem in the United States. In addition, she obtained an exclusive interview with Muhammad Ali’s twin children following his death in 2016 and contributed to CNN’s Emmy Award-nominated breaking news coverage of the Manchester concert assault. (more…)
John King is an American journalist, anchor and reporter currently working as CNN’s chief national correspondent, based in Washington, D.C.. He formerly anchored Inside Politics, State of the Union, and John King, USA. King started as a writer with the Associated Press in 1985. King led the AP’s political coverage of the 1992 and 1996 presidential elections after being appointed chief political correspondent in 1991. King’s coverage of the Gulf War in Kuwait earned him the Associated Press Managing Editors Association’s outstanding reporting award in 1991. (more…)
Van Jones is an American lawyer, political analyst, media personality, civil rights advocate and author currently working as a host for CNN’s The Van Jones Show, The Redemption Project with Van Jones, and The Messy Truth with Van Jones. Jones is also the co-creator of the Emmy Award-winning virtual reality series, The Messy Truth VR Experience. In 2009, Jones held the positions of distinguished visiting fellow at Princeton University and Special Advisor for Green Jobs under President Barack Obama. Among the non-profits he founded or co-formed were the Dream Corps, Color of Change, and the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. Dream Corps Justice, Dream Corps Tech, and Green for All are three advocacy programs run by the social justice accelerator Dream Corps. (more…)
Brianna Keilar is an American journalist, anchor and reporter currently working as a co-anchor of the afternoon edition of CNN News Central. Previously, she served as a political correspondent, Congressional correspondent, a White House correspondent and general assignment correspondent for CNN in Washington. She joined CNN in November 2006. (more…)
Kasie Hunt is an American journalist, anchor and reporter currently working as a political correspondent for CNN, and host of The Arena with Kasie Hunt. Hunt began her media career as an intern in NBC News’ politics division. She covered the enactment of the Affordable Care Act as a health policy correspondent for Congress Daily in The National Journal. She covered the 2010 midterm elections as a writer for Politico. She covered Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign after joining the Associated Press in August 2011 as a national political correspondent. (more…)
Ben Hunte is a British journalist, anchor and reporter currently working as a news presenter and correspondent at CNN. He was the BBC’s first LGBT correspondent and a West Africa correspondent before joining Vice News as a global correspondent. Hunte appeared on Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list in May 2022. (more…)
Max Foster is a British journalist, anchor and reporter currently working as an anchor and correspondent for CNN, based in London. He hosts the 1 pm GMT edition of CNN Newsroom. Foster joined CNN International as a London-based Business Anchor and Correspondent in 2005. After hosting special coverage around the failing health of Pope John Paul II, he was appointed permanent co-anchor of CNN Today with Monita Rajpal, where he led special coverage of major events, including the outbreak of the 2006 Lebanon War and the 2007 London car bombs. (more…)
Eleni Giokos is a South African journalist, anchor and reporter currently working as a CNN correspondent and presents Connecting Africa on CNN International. Before becoming an anchor and correspondent for the 24-hour news channel eNCA, Giokos started her career at CNBC Africa in 2005. She covered breaking news and business stories there, such as Oscar Pistorius’s murder of Reeva Steenkamp and the attack on the Westgate Mall. (more…)