PERSON: Suzanne Malveaux

News Anchor

Suzanne Malveaux anchors Newsroom International from 12p.m. to 1p.m. and the 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. edition of CNN Newsroom weekdays. Malveaux, who has worked in CNN’s White House unit for nearly a decade, has played a key role as a member of the network’s Best Political Team on Television and as the primary substitute anchor for The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer. During her tenure with CNN, Malveaux has covered three presidents, presidential campaigns, and key stories including the War in Iraq, Hurricane Katrina and the economic crisis. Based in Atlanta, Malveaux joined the network in May 2002.

In September 2011, Malveaux traveled to Afghanistan for the 10th anniversary of 9/11 and reported on the Taliban attacks on high profile locations. She also covered the 2008 presidential election cycle from the campaign the trail as a member of the network’s Best Political Team on Television. In advance of the Democratic and Republican national conventions, Malveaux reported and crafted a 90-minute documentary on Sen. Barack Obama as part of a two-part series on the presidential candidates. Throughout the campaign season, Malveaux interviewed Barack and Michelle Obama several times. Additionally, Malveaux served as a panelist questioning the candidates in the Democratic presidential primary debate sponsored by CNN and the Congressional Black Caucus Institute in January 2008. She also played a key role in CNN’s 2004 election coverage and its Emmy-winning 2006 election coverage.

As White House correspondent, Malveaux has interviewed, former presidents George W. Bush, George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton and former first ladies Hillary Clinton and Laura Bush. Her coverage of presidential trips overseas has taken her to Europe, the Balkans, Southeast Asia, Africa, Australia, Latin America and the Middle East.

Malveaux has broken numerous stories for CNN, including the plea deal of lobbyist Jack Abramoff, White House personnel changes and the retirement of Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. In September 2005, Malveaux returned to her family’s hometown New Orleans where she reported on the devastation and recovery efforts following Hurricane Katrina.

Before joining the network, Malveaux was a correspondent for NBC News based in both Chicago and Washington, D.C. During her tenure, she covered the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in Pennsylvania and at the Pentagon; the Kosovo and Afghanistan wars from the Pentagon; Clinton’s impeachment trial.

Previously, Malveaux was a general assignment reporter for WRC-TV in Washington, D.C., and from 1991-1994 for WFXT-TV and New England Cable News in Boston. Before getting into the news business, Malveaux produced documentaries in Egypt and Kenya and worked on a one-hour documentary on the Great Depression with Boston-based Blackside Inc.

Malveaux earned a 1996 Emmy Award and contributed to New England Cable News' AP award for Best Newscast in Boston. She was part of the coverage teams that earned CNN a George Foster Peabody award for its Katrina coverage and an Alfred I. duPont Award for its coverage of the tsunami disaster in Southeast Asia. Malveaux was also named one of “America's Most Powerful Players Under 40” by Black Enterprise magazine, Ebony’s “Outstanding Women in Marketing & Communications” and Essence Magazine 2009 Journalist of the Year. Malveaux also was selected to participate in Fortune/Aspen Institute's 2006 Brainstorming Summit.

In her continuing commitment to education, she serves on the Boards of Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and Maryland Leadership Workshop.

Malveaux earned a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University.

-- cnn.com