Melissa Bell Biography
Melissa Bell is an American journalist and technologist working as a correspondent for CNN based in the network’s Paris bureau. She joined the network in October 2016.
How old is Melissa Bell? – Age
Bell is 49 years old as of 26 September 2021. She was born in 1972 in London, United Kingdom.
Melissa Bell Education
Bell studied at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., with the intention of going to law school. When the September 11 attacks happened, she was working as a legal assistant at a New York law firm. She moved away from New York a year later and worked as a bartender in Vail, Colorado, and as a waitress at a racetrack. She enrolled in Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and interned at India’s Hindustan Times, thanks to her mother’s encouragement. In 2006, she received her master’s degree.
Melissa Bell Husband
Bell has not revealed her marital status to the public. It is not known whether she is dating, married, engaged or single.
Melissa Bell Net Worth
Bell has an estimated net worth of $ 2 million.
Melissa Bell Salary
Bell earns an annual salary range of between $100 -$200 thousand yearly.
Melissa Bell CNN -Career
Bell met Raju Narisetti in India, and he hired her to help launch the Delhi-based daily business newspaper Mint. She contributed to the paper’s weekend lifestyle magazine as a writer and editor. Bell began her career as a blogger and reporter at The Washington Post in 2010. She wrote a style section column about online culture and was promoted to lead the paper’s blog strategy in 2012.
She and Ezra Klein left The Washington Post as director of platforms in early 2014 to co-found the website Vox with Matt Yglesias. For the new website, she served as executive editor and senior product manager. She oversaw the site’s development and led teams responsible for analytics, graphics, and the news app. Bell joined Vox Media as vice president of growth and analytics in 2015.
She was in charge of audience and new product development, as well as establishing best practices across all of Vox Media’s sites. In mid-2016, Bell was appointed publisher of Vox Media, with responsibility for the audience and brand development.
Bell was named one of the “16 women whose digital startups deserve Vox-level plaudits” by Columbia Journalism Review in 2014. She was named one of the “most powerful women in Washington” by the Washingtonian in 2015, and she was included in Marie Claire’s “New Guard” list of the “most connected women in America.” Bell was named to Folio’s 2016 “Director-Level Doers” list, which honors the industry’s 100 “most forward-thinking and innovative leaders.” She was named to the Washingtonian’s “40 Under 40” list as well as Digiday’s “changemakers” list of fifty people “making media and marketing more modern” in 2017.