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Introduction :
- A journalist from New York, Vanessa Yurkevich is the Chief TV & Digital Correspondent at CNN.
- Born on November 29, 1985, Vanessa has blonde hair with light blue eyes.
Personal Life : Parents, Family and Education
- Vanessa was born and brought up in New Jersey and currently resides in the city of New York.
- She grew alongside her younger sister Allison. Allison is a fashion assistant.
- Vanessa studied at the Montclair High School in Essex County, New Jersey.
- Later, she went onto attend the Fordham University Lincoln Center. She completed her Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Communications and Media Studies while minoring in Spanish.
- For her Spanish course, Vanessa was sent abroad mid-term to attend Pontificia Universidad Catolica Argentina Santa Maria de los Buenos Aires in Argentina.
- Wbile studying Vanessa was an active member of several societies including American Women in Radio and Television, Reporters without Borders, Member of Broadcasting & Cable and Centre for Communication.
- In 2010, she attended Hunter College for studying Polish Language and Literature.
Career, Job, Salary and Net Worth :
- Vanessa started off as an intern at ABC News and CBS News in 2006.
- In March 2006, she was an intern at Radio Cultura, Argentina wherein she assisted producers for field interviews. She even participated in the weekly broadcast of the Spanish tourism program and took calls from show listeners.
- Following this, Vanessa joined Associated Press Television, in Buenos Aires, Argentina in the capacity of International Producer and conducted Spanish interviews.
- At the start of 2012, Yurkevich started off as a news Reporter for The New York Times.
- From 2010 to 2012 she worked as a Reporter for NY1 News & from January 2008 to August 2011, she had been Segment & Field Producer for them. The two different roles included researching, writing, editing, shooting, and reporting stories from New Jersey, Queens and Staten Island.
- She also worked independently for Zazoom Media Group as the host of the show Buzz60.
- Between Oct 2012 and Sep 2014, Vanessa worked as Freelance Correspondent for Fast Track, BBC and then as a Correspondent for ‘Blouin News & Blouin Artinfo.’
- In October 2014, she joined CNN as Digital & TV Correspondent and has been there ever since.
- In her role as a Correspondent, Yurkevich has covered notable events such as the historic six-week General Motors strike and the 2019 federal government shutdown. She also conducted an exclusive interview with former Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue during the height of the trade war. During the 2020 presidential campaign, she covered Democratic candidate Pete Buttigieg and interviewed many other candidates like Beto O’Rourke, Governor Jay Inslee, etc.
- She also anchored CNN’s digital coverage during the 2020 Election Night from the Empire State Building, which earned her multiple awards like Edward R. Murrow, Webby, and PROMAXBDA.
Interesting Facts and Trivia :
- Vanessa is fluent in Polish and Spanish apart from her native English language.
- An ardent animal lover, Vanessa enjoys riding horses and adopting cats and dogs.
- She has interviewed top economists like Jeffery Sachs and Eric Maskin.
- Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina is one of her favorite cities in the world.
- She has been awarded the Russia/US Media Fellowship and Scripps Howard ‘Reporting on Immigration.’
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