PERSON: Diana Magnay

International Correspondent

Diana Magnay is one of CNN's two Berlin-based correspondents. She covers political and economic affairs within Germany, particularly the impact of the global financial crisis and Germany's handling of the economic crisis within the eurozone.

Her reporting has taken her to most countries within Europe as well as to Iraq and South Africa. In May 2010 she flew to Athens to report on the Greek debt crisis and the riots which accompanied the drive for austerity. In March 2010 she spent a month in Rome covering the sex abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Church and the Vatican’s response. She was a regular TV-fixture of the German and Dutch fanzones during the 2010 World Cup, reported from the toxic sludge disaster in Hungary and led CNN's coverage of the earthquake in L'Aquila, Italy in April 2009.

Magnay has also reported from Poland, Germany and Romania as part of CNN’s coverage of the 20th anniversary of the fall of communism, "Autumn of Change".

Magnay has ten years of television journalism experience, starting off with CNN in London as a production assistant in January 2001. She has produced all CNN's flagship international news and business programmes during major news events such as the Iraq War, the Tsunami and the London bombings in July 2005. As a field producer major news stories she has covered include the war in Georgia in August 2008 and G8 Heiligendamm.

Magnay has a BA in Modern History from the University of Oxford.

-- cnn.com