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Brooke Baldwin

Brooke Baldwin anchors the 2 - 4 p.m. edition of CNN Newsroom. Based in the network’s world headquarters in Atlanta, Baldwin came to the CNN and HLN networks in 2008.

Baldwin anchored the network’s breaking news coverage of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, the uprisings in Egypt, the debt ceiling debate and the terror attacks in Norway. Baldwin also helped lead CNN’s special coverage of the final space shuttle launch Atlantis from Kennedy Space Center. She has reported on location for a number of other breaking news stories including the network’s Peabody-award winning coverage of the oil spill disaster in the Gulf, the collapse of the Upper Big Branch Coal Mine in West Virginia; and the battle over the fate of the nation’s big three automakers. Baldwin worked with the network’s Special Investigations Unit to complete her first hour-long documentary “To Catch a Killer.” Baldwin contributed to the network’s award-winning coverage of the 2008 presidential election. In 2009, she exclusively reported on the new discoveries of the forgotten Mayan City of Mirador for CNN International’s “World’s Untold Stories.”

Baldwin joined CNN after serving as a lead reporter for the 10 p.m. newscast for WTTG in Washington, D.C., where she covered the shooting massacres at both Virginia Tech and the West Nickel Mines School, a one-room Amish schoolhouse in southeastern Pennsylvania. At WOWK in Charleston/Huntington, West Virginia, she was the morning anchor and reported on the Sago Mine collapse and Martha Stewart’s release from federal prison. She began her news broadcasting career at WVIR in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Baldwin earned a double bachelor’s degree in journalism and Spanish from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. While at UNC, she also studied at the Universidad Ibero Americana in Mexico City and she is fluent in Spanish.