Jessica Yellin

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Jessica Yellin (born February 25, 1971 in Los Angeles, California) was a White House correspondent for the ABC News program Good Morning America, as well as for other ABC News programs. Yellin had been with ABC News from July 2003 to August 2007 before she left for CNN, after previously working for MSNBC. Before that, Yellin was a reporter for WTVT in Tampa, Florida, and anchor/reporter for Central Florida News 13 in Orlando, Florida. She moved to CNN in July 2007, covering Capitol Hill for the network. [1]

Yellin - on the Anderson Cooper 360 program on CNN on Wednesday May 28th - admitted to having been pressured by her former employer at MSNBC to avoid negative reporting and report favorably on the war on Iraq in the run-up to it.[2][3]

Yellin attended St. Augustine-by-the-Sea elementary school (now named Crossroads Elementary, of the Crossroads School for the Arts and Sciences) in Santa Monica, CA. She was president of her high school graduating class at The Westlake School for Girls in Los Angeles. She is a graduate of Harvard University.

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  1. ^ mediabistro.com: TVNewser
  2. ^ YouTube.com: Yellin: Pressured by Execs to Do Positive Stories on Bush; transcript
  3. ^ "TV news under the microscope"


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