Allan Chernoff is a senior correspondent based in CNN's New York bureau and covers a broad range of news including, crime, terrorism, extreme weather, politics, law, business and consumer affairs.
Chernoff has reported from the scene of many hurricanes, tornadoes and floods and numerous tragedies such as the Amish schoolhouse shootings, the plane crash into a Manhattan high-rise and the murder of law student Imette St. Guillen.
In addition, he has broken numerous stories exclusively on CNN. He was the first to report that insurance companies were refusing to compensate homeowners victimized by Hurricane Katrina, a fact that led to multiple lawsuits against the industry. He reported on the planned legal assault against Merck over the drug Vioxx and broke news of the insider trading guilty plea of former ImClone CEO Sam Waksal; Wall Street analyst Jack Grubman's conflict of interest settlement; the suicide of former Enron executive Cliff Baxter; SEC fraud charges against WorldCom; and the plan to dissolve accounting firm Arthur Anderson.
Chernoff joined CNN in 2000 and for five years anchored and reported business news for CNN, CNNfn, CNN International and Headline News, analyzing investment implications of global economic and financial events.
Prior to joining CNN, he reported for CNBC and NBC programs, including the weekend editions of NBC Nightly News and Today, as well as for MSNBC and WNBC.
He was first to report details of the global settlement between tobacco companies and the states. He reported on racism at the New York Stock Exchange, which led the NYSE to close on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. He has covered every major financial scandal since the 1980s. He has reported on international political and economic affairs from Japan, Russia, Germany, Israel, Mexico and Canada.
Among his honors, Chernoff is a four-time winner of best reporting awards from the Society of Professional Journalist's New York chapter. His reporting on Hurricane Katrina contributed to CNN's Peabody Award. Most recently, he won a National Headliner Award in 2008 for a report on tax anticipation loans.
He has written articles on business, foreign affairs, travel and sports for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the Los Angeles Times and Newsday, as well as other publications. He was one of the founding journalists of the Financial News Network.
Chernoff sits on the board of the Deadline Club and is a career advisor for Brown University students. He was an interviewer for the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Project and a former board member and secretary of the New York Financial Writers Association.
Chernoff earned a bachelor of arts degree from Brown University.
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