Blake Essig is a CNN international correspondent based in the network’s Tokyo bureau, where he has won numerous awards. He is in charge of reporting on major events in Japan and the Asia-Pacific region.
Rachel Crane is a journalist from the United States working as an innovation and space correspondent for CNN. She joined the station in April 2014.
Elizabeth Cohen is a senior medical correspondent for CNN’s Health, Medical, and Wellness unit, where she covers breaking medical news and consumer health issues for CNN and CNN.com.
Phil Black is a CNN International freelance reporter based in London from Australia. Black joined CNN in April 2007 and focuses on European news.
Kasie Hunt is a CNN political correspondent in the United States. She was the Capitol Hill correspondent for NBC News from 2013 to 2021, covering Congress across all NBC News and MSNBC
Alyssa Farah is an American political advisor who served in the Trump administration as White House Director of Strategic Communications and Assistant to the President in 2020.
Chris Cillizza is a CNN political commentator who lives in the United States. Prior to joining CNN, he was a regular contributor to The Washington Post’s daily political blog
Sanjay Gupta is a neurosurgeon, medical reporter, and author from the United States. He is the associate chief of neurosurgery at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta
Jim Bittermann is an American journalist working as CNN’s Senior International Correspondent. He has covered the death of Princess Diana in 1997, NATO airstrikes on Kosovo in 1998
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.