Jennifer Eccleston
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Jennifer Eccleston (born 1969) is an American television journalist, who has reported for all three major American cable news networks (CNN, Fox News and MSNBC). Currently, she is a CNN international correspondent, based in Italy.
Eccleston graduated from Catholic and Georgetown University with a consortium degree in political science and philosophy. Eccleston then went on to study for a Masters in comparative European governments at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
She began her career at the BBC’s Washington Bureau as a researcher for Newsnight. Several years later, she became a stringer in Vietnam for National Public Radio. She has also worked as a freelance producer for ARD German TV, APTV and CNN.
Eccleston joined CNN from NBC, where she was a Rome-based correspondent who also reported on the war from the conflict zone and across the United States. She has also covered civil conflicts in Liberia, the Ivory Coast and Sierra Leone and the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia. Prior to that she reported on the war for Fox News.
Since joining CNN in April 2005 Eccleston has spent much of her time covering the ensuing aftermath of the war in Iraq. She regularly reports on the emerging political process, daily hardships of regular Iraqis and the on-going military operations.
Highlights of Eccleston’s coverage in Iraq for CNN include reporting on the bridge stampede in September 2005 where nearly a thousand Shi'ites died in Baghdad during a religious festival. She also spent two weeks embedded with the US Marines, chasing insurgents in the western Al Anbar province in the run up to the Iraqi referendum.
Additionally, Eccleston was part of the CNN team covering the death of Pope John Paul II in April 2005 and the subsequent election of Pope Benedict XVI. She also reported on the July 2005 London bombings.
