PERSON: Casey Wian

Correspondent

Casey Wian is a correspondent based in CNN’s Los Angeles bureau. He joined CNN in 1990, as a New York-based correspondent for "Moneyline" and CNN Business News. He moved to Los Angeles in 1992, and has served as CNNfn’s West Coast Bureau chief and as correspondent for "Lou Dobbs Tonight."

Major stories he has covered include the 1992 Los Angeles riots, the 1994 Northridge earthquake, the 1997 Asian financial crisis, the handover of Hong Kong to China, California’s economic meltdown, illegal immigration, border security, drug smuggling and the 2011 Tucson shootings.

His ground-breaking reporting on the case of convicted Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean led to the commutation of their sentences by President George W. Bush.

Wian has received awards from the Overseas Press Club for his coverage of Chinese immigrant smuggling and from the Columbus International Film Festival for his series “Swords to Plowshares: The Price of Peace.” He has been recognized for his contributions to CNN’s Peabody award winning coverage of Hurricane Katrina and the 2008 Presidential Primaries; Emmy award winning coverage of Sept. 11, 2001 and the exporting of American jobs; a DuPont-Columbia award for coverage of the Tsunami Disaster in South Asia and a CableACE for reporting on the Northridge earthquake.

Prior to CNN, Wian worked for Financial News Network, where he served as a Los Angeles-based writer/producer, New York-based correspondent and Washington bureau chief. He also covered the aerospace and defense industry for Investor’s Daily. He has reported from more than a dozen nations,

Wian holds a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism from the University of Southern California.

-- cnn.com