Sandra Endo is a national correspondent for CNN Newsource based in Washington, D.C. Endo files feature stories and breaking news reports as well as provides custom live reports for approximately 800 CNN Newsource affiliates.
Endo has been on the 2008 presidential campaign trail and recently covered her sixth national political convention. She is a contributing correspondent to CNN's "Election Express Yourself" segment, which features voters' perspectives on key issues across the country. Among her breaking news coverage, Endo spent a week along the Mississippi River covering the Midwest floods of 2008, reported from Texas during Hurricane Ike, and reported on the deadly school shooting at Northern Illinois University. Endo also covered Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Washington, D.C.
Prior to joining Newsource, Endo was a political reporter for NY1, covering a wide array of campaigns and the transit strike of 2005 and reporting around the clock after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. She started at NY1 in 1998, shooting video and producing stories and previously worked at WNBC-TV and interned at ABC News.
A California native, Endo is a second-generation Japanese American and is an active member of the Asian American Journalists Association. She has been a competitive swimmer for most of her life and has held numerous state and national records.
Endo graduated with high honors from New York University, where she studied politics and journalism, and became a Loyola Law School Journalist Fellow in 2007.
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