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Vanessa Yurkevich

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  • Business and Politics Correspondent, CNN
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Vanessa Yurkevich’s Biography

Vanessa Yurkevich is a native New Yorker who began her journalism career at NY1 News. As a one-man band reporter she interviewed New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and New York Senators Charles Schumer and Frank Lautenberg. Vanessa has also worked for Associated Press Television in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and for the BBC.
She also worked at Blouin ARTINFO covering the arts, lifestyle, and travel around the world. She's interviewed top economists like Jeffery Sachs and Eric Maskin for Blouin News.
She is the recipient of the Scripps Howard "Reporting on Immigration" Fellowship, and the "Russia/US Media Fellowship" from the Knight Foundation.
Vanessa is fluent in Spanish.