Jennifer Eccleston is a CNN international correspondent, based in Italy.
Since joining CNN in April 2005 Eccleston has spent much of her time covering the ensuing aftermath of the war in Iraq. She regularly reports on the emerging political process, daily hardships of regular Iraqis and the on-going military operations.
Highlights of Eccleston’s coverage in Iraq for CNN include reporting on the bridge stampede in September 2005 where nearly a thousand Shia Muslims died in Baghdad during a religious festival. She also spent two weeks embedded with the US Marines, chasing insurgents in the western Al Anbar province in the run up to the Iraqi referendum.
Additionally, Eccleston was part of the CNN team covering the Death of Pope John Paul II in April 2005 and the subsequent election of Pope Benedict XVI. She also reported on the London Bombings in the summer of 2005.
Eccleston joined CNN from NBC where she was Rome correspondent but also reported on the Iraq War from the conflict zone and across the United States. She has also covered civil conflicts in Liberia, the Ivory Coast and Sierra Leone and the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia. Prior to that she reported on the war in Iraq for Fox News.
Eccleston began her career in journalism working for the BBC’s Washington Bureau as a researcher for ‘Newsnight’. Several years later, she became a stringer in Vietnam for National Public Radio. She has also worked as a freelance producer for ARD German TV, APTV and CNN.
She graduated from Catholic University and Georgetown University in the USA with a consortium degree in politics and philosophy. Eccleston then went on to study for a Masters in comparative European governments at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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