Awards & Recognition
★2024 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism
★2023 ICFJ Founders Award for Excellence in Journalism
★2024 Augsburg Media Prize for Lifetime Achievement
★George Foster Peabody Awards (Hurricane Katrina, 2008 election coverage)
★Multiple Emmy Awards (Oklahoma City bombing, Election coverage)
★Edward R. Murrow Award (9/11 coverage)
★Alfred I. DuPont Award (Southeast Asian tsunami)
★2004 Journalist Pillar of Justice Award
★2003 Daniel Pearl Award
★2002 Ernie Pyle Journalism Award
★2000 Hubert H. Humphrey First Amendment Freedoms Prize
★1999 Lowell Thomas Broadcast Journalism Award
Notable Facts
→Co-anchor of CNN's The Situation Room since 2005, one of CNN's longest-running shows
→CNN's lead political anchor and principal anchor for over 35 years at the network
→Author of two published books: 'Between Washington and Jerusalem' and 'Territory of Lies'
→Has 1.6 million followers on Twitter/X
→Born in Germany to Holocaust survivor parents, fluent in Hebrew
→Moderated multiple presidential debates and covered all U.S. presidential elections since 2004
→Known for viral moments including Celebrity Jeopardy performance and quick brunch-to-breaking-news transitions