PERSON: Daniella Diaz

American Writer

Daniella Diaz is a reporter covering Capitol Hill for CNN.

She was most recently a video producer covering former Vice President Mike Pence’s re-election efforts and before that, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign. Diaz covered the 2018 midterm elections, focusing mainly on races in Florida.

Prior to that, she was a writer for CNN digital, covering the day-to-day breaking news on Capitol Hill. Diaz covered the 2016 election as a breaking news reporter for CNN Politics. She was previously a digital producer at CNN, where she supported day-to-day production of the CNN Politics website’s video and editorial content.

While at CNN, she’s traveled the entire country covering the 2020 election for CNN. Stories she’s pitched have also taken her to Tijuana, Mexico, to report on deported veterans, as well as Havana, Cuba, to report about relations between the two countries. She’s also been named The Hill’s “Latina Leaders to Watch” in 2017.

Prior to joining CNN, she was a web producer at POLITICO where she helped cover breaking news, and also served in NBC News’ investigative unit. Before moving to the nation’s capital, Diaz reported for South Texas’ largest and leading newspaper, The Monitor, and San Antonio’s largest daily newspaper, the San Antonio Express-News.

A proud Texan, Diaz hails from the Rio Grande Valley and graduated magna cum laude from The University of Texas — Rio Grande Valley. In college, she studied abroad in Istanbul, Turkey. She is fluent in Spanish.

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