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Sharon Braithwaite

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Emmy & duPont-Columbia Award winner • Journalist @CNN • fmr @corriere, @IlTirreno • 🎓@cityjournalism @unipisa • RT/likes/follows are not endorsements

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Sharon Braithwaite’s Biography

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I'm an award-winning, British-Italian journalist based in London.
I have more than 9 years of experience in the UK and in Italy and I'm trained in TV and radio.

I'm currently working at CNN as a producer on the Newsdesk and on the Futures (planning) desk.

In September 2024 I won an Emmy Award as senior international planning editor for the live breaking news coverage of the Israel-Hamas War.

In 2023 I won an Emmy and a duPont-Columbia Award as senior international planning editor for the live …

Sharon Braithwaite’s Journalist Portfolio

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UNESCO recommends putting Venice on its heritage danger list | CNN

UNESCO recommends putting Venice on its heritage danger list | CNN

UNESCO has recommended that Venice, one of the most popular and fragile tourist destinations in Italy, be add…

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Wagner troops moving towards Polish border and could try sneaking across, PM says | CNN

Wagner troops moving towards Polish border and could try sneaking across, PM says | CNN

More than 100 troops from the Russian mercenary group Wagner are moving towards a thin strip of land between …

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Wildfires, heat and giant hail as Italy grapples with extreme weather | CNN

Wildfires, heat and giant hail as Italy grapples with extreme weather | CNN

Italy is facing multiple kinds of extreme weather at once, with some parts of the country scorched by blister…

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Man acquitted of assault as grope lasted less than 10 seconds, sparking outrage | CNN

Man acquitted of assault as grope lasted less than 10 seconds, sparking outrage | CNN

A court ruling that found a school janitor not guilty of groping a student because the act only lasted less t…

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UN uncovers 87 bodies in Darfur mass grave horror | CNN

UN uncovers 87 bodies in Darfur mass grave horror | CNN

The head of a United Nations agency has called for an investigation into the killing of at least 87 people wh…

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Italian women protest prosecutor's call to erase lesbian mother's name from child's birth certifi...

Italian women protest prosecutor's call to erase lesbian mother's name from child's birth certifi...

Around 300 women took part in a sit-in outside Padua's palace of justice on Friday, after a state prosecutor …

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Four bystanders tackle knife-wielding driver after car plows into crowd in Italy

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By Sharon Braithwaite , Max Saltman
| KRDO-TV (Colorado Springs, CO)
By Sharon Braithwaite, Max Saltman, CNN (CNN) — Shortly after a car plowed into a crowd of pedestrians in Modena, Italy on Saturday, four Italian civilians stepped in and tackled the vehicle’s driver, pulling him to the ground, according to the city’s mayor. “The madman, I don’t know what to call him, the criminal who committed this act, he got out of the car brandishing a knife,” Mayor Massimo Mezzetti told state-owned news agency RAI.
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Four bystanders tackle knife-wielding driver after car plows into crowd in Italy

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By Sharon Braithwaite , Max Saltman
| WISC-TV (Madison, WI)
(CNN) — Shortly after a car plowed into a crowd of pedestrians in Modena, Italy on Saturday, four Italian civilians stepped in and tackled the vehicle’s driver, pulling him to the ground, according to the city’s mayor. “The madman, I don’t know what to call him, the criminal who committed this act, he got out of the car brandishing a knife,” Mayor Massimo Mezzetti told state-owned news agency RAI.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

News reporter at Il Tirreno, a Tuscan newspaper.

How is social media changing news?

It makes news-gathering easier, but gives a platform to fake news producers and trolls

What tools and software do you use to do your job?

Pc/Ipad, smartphone and/or photo camera, Adobe Audition and Premiere.

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