Sean Callebs is a general assignment correspondent for CNN based in New Orleans, where he was part of the expansive CNN team that covered Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. Callebs has worked in Denver and Washington, D.C., for the network since joining CNN/U.S. after working as an Atlanta-based national correspondent for CNN Newsource.
Callebs began working for CNN Newsource in September 1998, covering stories around the world. After the Oklahoma City bombing, he got the only interview with co-conspirator, Michael Fortier. Callebs served for two years as an anchor and correspondent for CNN Financial News. A 1993 Emmy Award winner for coverage of Midwestern floods, Callebs was honored the same year with a gold medal at the New York Film Festival for a special on Alaska dealing with the after affects of the Exxon Valdez spill. Callebs started at CNN in 1989 as an environmental reporter.
On the morning of Dec. 14, 2003, Callebs was anchoring on CNN/U.S. when the world learned of the capture of deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Callebs reported from the high winds of Hurricane Isabel in September 2003 from North Carolina, and in February 2003, Callebs traveled to Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., to provide coverage of the Space Shuttle Columbia tragedy.
Before joining CNN, Callebs was an anchor and producer for CNN and NBC affiliate WIS-TV in Columbia, S.C., and before that, an anchor and editor for WSAZ-TV in Huntington-Charleston, W.Va.
Callebs holds a bachelor of arts degree in broadcasting journalism from Marshall University.
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