- Larry King
Larry King (born Lawrence Harvey Zeiger on November 19, 1933) is an iconic award-winning American writer, journalist and broadcaster. He currently hosts a nightly interview program on CNN called "Larry King Live", one of the longest running talk shows on air.
- Jeanne Moos
Jeanne Moos is a national news correspondent for CNN. She is based out of the network's studios in New York City. A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Moos originally wanted to pursue a career in print journalism, but while attending Syracuse University (where she holds a bachelor's degree in public communication), she decided to go into the television business instead. In 1976, she landed her first major job in television at WPTZ in Plattsburgh, New York, …
- Lou Dobbs
Lou Dobbs (born September 24 1945) is the anchor and managing editor of CNN's "Lou Dobbs Tonight", an editorial columnist, and host of a syndicated radio show. "Lou Dobbs Tonight" attracts CNN's second-largest audience after "Larry King Live", with about 800,000 viewers per night. Dobbs also lectures widely.
- Wolf Blitzer
Wolf Blitzer (born March 22, 1948 in Buffalo, New York) is an American journalist and author. He has been a "CNN" reporter since 1990. Blitzer is currently the host of the newscast "The Situation Room" and the Sunday talk show "Late Edition". Blitzer previously hosted "Wolf Blitzer Reports", which was replaced by "The Situation Room".
- Fred Thompson
Frederick Dalton "Fred" Thompson (born August 19 1942) is an American lawyer, lobbyist, and character actor. He represented Tennessee as a Republican in the U.S. Senate from 1994 thru 2003. Thompson resides in McLean, Virginia near Washington D.C. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Visiting Fellow with the American Enterprise Institute, specializing in national security and intelligence. As an actor, Thompson has performed in film and on television.
- Anderson Cooper
Anderson Hays Cooper is an Emmy Award winning American journalist, author, and television personality. He currently works as the primary anchor of the CNN news show "Anderson Cooper 360°". The program is normally broadcast live from a New York City based studio; however, Cooper often broadcasts live, on location for breaking news stories.
- Michael Moore
Michael Francis Moore (born April 23 1954) is an Academy Award-winning American director and producer of "Fahrenheit 9/11" and "Bowling for Columbine", two of the highest-grossing documentaries of all time. He is a vocal critic of globalization, large corporations, gun violence, the Iraq War, U.S. President George W. Bush and the American health care system. In 2005 Time magazine named him one of the world's 100 most influential people.
- Steve Jobs
Steven Paul Jobs (born February 24 1955) is the co-founder and CEO of Apple and was the CEO of Pixar until its acquisition by Disney. He is currently the largest Disney shareholder and a member of Disney's Board of Directors. He is considered a leading figure in both the computer and entertainment industries. Jobs' history in business has contributed greatly to the mythos of the quirky, individualistic Silicon Valley entrepreneur, …
- Robert Novak
Robert David Sanders Novak (born February 26, 1931) is a conservative American political commentator. Over his lengthy career, Bob Novak has become well-known as a columnist (writing "Inside Report" since 1963) and as a television personality (appearing on many shows for CNN, most notably "The Capital Gang", "Crossfire", and "Evans, Novak, Hunt, and Shields"). His memoirs was published in July 2007 entitled 'Prince of Darkness, …
- Nancy Grace
Nancy Grace (born October 23, 1958) is an American talk show host and former prosecutor. She frequently discusses issues from a victims' rights standpoint. As of 2006, she is the host of "Nancy Grace", a self-titled CNN Headline News show, also host of "Closing Arguments", a show on Court TV. She has co-authored the book "Objection! -- How High-Priced Defense Attorneys, Celebrity Defendants, and a 24/7 Media Have Hijacked Our Criminal Justice System".
- Jack Cafferty
Jack Cafferty (born 1942) is a CNN commentator and a host of the weekend financial show "In The Money". In the summer of 2005, Cafferty joined "The Situation Room", CNN's new weekday afternoon newscast. Cafferty formerly co-anchored CNN's weekday morning broadcast, "American Morning". Before CNN, Cafferty worked for several New York television stations.
- Howard Kurtz
Howard Alan Kurtz (born 1953, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American journalist, blogger, author and media critic. Kurtz is the primary media writer for the "Washington Post". Kurtz is the host of CNN's "Reliable Sources" and has written for "The New Republic", the "Washington Monthly", and "New York Magazine". He is frequently cited as media writer and expert on media trends. He writes a column for the Post on media trends and issues.
- John Roberts
John D. Roberts (born November 15, 1956 in Toronto, Ontario) is a television journalist for CNN, where he is a co-anchor of CNN's flagship morning program American Morning. He anchors from Washington and New York. He also served as the second anchor of This Week at War and served as the Senior National Correspondent based in Washington, DC. He has also substituted for Anderson Cooper on "Anderson Cooper 360".
- Richard Quest
Richard Austin Quest is a British news anchor based in London on the Cable News Network edition CNN International. Quest studied Law at the University of Leeds, taking his degree in 1985, and was called to the Bar. He had already gained broadcast experience when he spent the 1983–84 academic year at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. As news director for campus radio station WRVU, …
- Rachel Maddow Rachel Maddow
Rachel has a doctorate in political science (she was a Rhodes Scholar) and a background in HIV/AIDS activism and prison reform. She shakes a mean cocktail, drives a bright red pickup, hates Coldplay, loves arguing with conservatives, spends a lot of money on AMTRAK tickets, and dresses like a first-grader.
- Soledad O'Brien
Soledad O'Brien is the co-anchor of CNN American Morning . She joined CNN in 2003. The program is based in New York City and is CNN's flagship morning program. At CNN she was part of the team that won a George Foster Peabody award for coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. She was part of the team that won an Alfred I DuPont award for the coverage of the tsunami disaster in Southeast Asia in December 2004.
- Pat Buchanan
Patrick Joseph Buchanan (born November 2, 1938) is an American politician, author, syndicated columnist, and broadcaster. He ran in the 2000 presidential election on the Reform Party ticket. He also sought the Republican presidential nomination in 1992 and 1996. Buchanan was a senior advisor to three American presidents, Nixon, Ford and Reagan, and was an original host on CNN's "Crossfire".
- James Carville
James Carville (born October 25, 1944), is an American political consultant, commentator, media personality and pundit. Known as the "Ragin' Cajun", Carville gained national attention for his work as the lead strategist of the successful 1992 presidential campaign of then-Arkansas governor Bill Clinton. Carville was the co-host of CNN's "Crossfire" until its final broadcast in June 2005. Since its cancellation, he has appeared on CNN's new program, …
- David Brooks
Mr. Brooks joined The Weekly Standard at its inception in September 1995, having worked at The Wall Street Journal for the previous nine years. His last post at the Journal was as op-ed editor. Prior to that, he was posted in Brussels, covering Russia, the Middle East, South Africa and European affairs. His first post at the Journal was as editor of the book review section, and he filled in for five months as the Journal's movie critic.
- Kate O'Beirne
Kate O'Beirne is the Washington editor of "National Review". Her column, "Bread and Circuses," covers Congress, politics, and U.S. domestic policy. O’Beirne was a regular contributor on CNN's Saturday night political roundtable program, "The Capital Gang", along with Al Hunt, Mark Shields, Robert Novak, and Margaret Carlson. O'Beirne and Novak typically argued the conservative viewpoint, while Hunt, Shields, and Carlson provided the liberal viewpoint.
- Paula Zahn
Paula Zahn (born February 24, 1956 in Omaha, Nebraska) is an American newscaster, currently the host of "Paula Zahn NOW" on CNN.
- Ted Turner
Robert Edward Turner III (born in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American media mogul and philanthropist. As a businessman, he is best known as the founder of the cable television network CNN, the first dedicated 24-hour cable news channel. In addition to CNN, he founded WTBS, which pioneered the superstation concept in cable television. As a philanthropist, he is well known for his $1 billion pledge to the United Nations donated through his United Nations Foundation.
- John King
John King (born August 31,1964) is an American journalist. In 1985, King joined the Associated Press where he began as a writer. In 1987 he broke the story that a juror in the case of Benjamin LaGuer, an inmate proclaiming his innocence, accused other members of the panel of uttering racist remarks before and during deliberations.
- Sanjay Gupta
Dr. Sanjay Gupta is a first generation Indian-American physician and a contributing CNN senior health correspondent based in Atlanta, Georgia. An Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at Emory University and associate chief of the neurosurgery service at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, he is also a frequent guest on the news program "Anderson Cooper 360°". "Charity Hospital", a news report he filed for "Anderson Cooper 360°", …
- Bill Hemmer
Bill Hemmer is a journalist who spent ten years at CNN before moving to the Fox News Channel in August 2005. Before Hemmer left CNN in June 2005, he and Soledad O'Brien were the anchors on American Morning, CNN's flagship morning news program. Hemmer started with this program in 2002. While at CNN, Hemmer also anchored CNN Tonight, CNN Early Edition as well as CNN Morning News/CNN Live Today.
- Candy Crowley
Candance Alt Crowley (b. 26 December 1948 in Missouri) is a CNN political correspondent, specializing in U.S. presidential, gubernatorial, and Senate elections. She hosted "Inside Politics" in place of Judy Woodruff before the show was replaced with "The Situation Room". She is based in CNN's Washington bureau. She graduated from Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia.
- Christiane Amanpour
Christiane Amanpour, CBE (born January 12, 1958) (in) is the chief international correspondent for CNN.
- Bill Schneider
Bill Schneider is a news reporter and political analyst at CNN. He joined CNN in 1991 and is regularly featured during CNN's election coverage. He is also a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., and a contributing editor to the Los Angeles Times, National Journal and The Atlantic Monthly.
- Miles O'Brien
Miles O'Brien (b. June 9, 1959) is a technology and environmental correspondent for CNN. He formerly co-hosted "American Morning", a weekday morning news program, alongside Soledad O'Brien (no relation), and co-hosted "Live From", a weekday afternoon show on CNN's North American feed, alongside Kyra Phillips prior to AM. A licensed aircraft pilot, O'Brien is widely recognized as CNN's in-house expert on aviation, space exploration and space technology.
- Judy Woodruff
JUDY WOODRUFF , CNN ANCHOR: Welcome. Whether it wants to or not, the Bush administration is being forced by events to take a more active role in the Middle East. It has now become alarmingly clear that unless it's stopped, the violence between Israel and the Palestinians could spread, violence that Secretary of State Colin Powell is already labeling as unbearable.
- Jake Tapper
Jake Tapper (born March 12, 1969) is a journalist working for ABC News in Washington, DC. Born in New York City, he was raised in Philadelphia. For high school, he attended Akiba Hebrew Academy. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1991 with a B.A. in history modified by visual studies. He briefly attended graduate school at the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television.
- Michael Medved
Michael Medved (born October 3 1948) is an American, conservative radio talk show host, film critic and author.
- Greta van Susteren
Greta Van Susteren (born June 11, 1954 in Appleton, Wisconsin) is an American journalist and television personality on the Fox News Channel where she hosts "On the Record with Greta Van Susteren". She previously worked at CNN from 1991 to 2002. She is married to Washington, D.C. lawyer John Coale. Van Susteren has been cited before Congress by CEO of Fox News Channel's Parent Company Rupert Murdoch as an example of a left-leaning voice on the network.
- Aaron Brown
Aaron Brown (born November 10, 1948) is an American broadcast journalist. He is the former host of "NewsNight with Aaron Brown" on CNN. He is currently the John J. Rhodes Professor in Public Policy and American Institutions at Arizona State University.
- Kyra Phillips
Kyra Phillips (b. 1968) is an American news anchor for CNN, where she has been reporting since October 1999. Phillips co-anchors the afternoon edition of "CNN Newsroom" with Don Lemon.
- Brooke Anderson
Brooke Victoria Anderson is a culture and entertainment anchor and producer for CNN and serves as a correspondent and regular co-host for "Showbiz Tonight" on CNN Headline News. Based in CNN's Los Angeles, California bureau, Anderson joined the network in July 2000. Anderson graduated in 2000 with honors from the University of Georgia's Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication with a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism.
- Rick Sanchez
Rick Sanchez, is an anchor/correspondent on CNN who presently serves as the anchor of the weekend primetime editions of CNN Newsroom. In addition, Sanchez serves as a contributor to "Anderson Cooper 360°" and CNN en Español, where he frequently reports while simultaneously translating in English and Spanish. Based in the network's world headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, Sanchez joined the network in September 2004.
- Carol Costello
Carol Costello (born October 11, 1961) is a contributor to "The Situation Room", providing updates from CNN's New York studios. She also reports on a variety of fitness issues during "The Bod Squad" reports shown throughout CNN programs. Previously, Costello anchored the CNN early morning program "CNN Daybreak" and also was news reader on American Morning.On October 4, 2006, …
- Paul Begala
Mr. Begala's experience in corporate communications included having served as Senior Vice President of the communications strategy firm Public Strategies, Inc. where his clients included such industry leaders as Coca-Cola and Southwest Airlines.
- Peter Bergen
Peter Bergen is a print and television journalist who appears as a terrorism analyst on CNN. He is known for conducting the first television interview with Osama Bin Laden in 1997. He has written several books on terrorism, including "Holy War, Inc." and "The Osama bin Laden I Know". Bergen is Adjunct Professor in South Asia Studies at Johns Hopkins University"s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation.