Anchors & Reporters

Diana Muriel is an international correspondent for CNN as well as a producer for CNN's international programming. Muriel reports from around the world and also provides live coverage of the London Stock Exchange for CNN's daily business programs.

In January 2003, Muriel traveled to Venezuela to cover the national strike that sparked a worldwide oil crisis and crippled the country economically with daily rallies in the streets by both government and opposition supporters.

Then, during 2003's Operation Iraqi Freedom, Muriel was one of CNN's 18 embedded journalists, reporting from her position with the British Forces. By phone and videophone, she offered viewers frontline reports throughout the conflict from Southern Iraq.

Other significant stories she has covered include the Foot and Mouth epidemic in the northern England and southern Scotland. She has also followed events in Northern Ireland, including the Loyalist marches and parliamentary violence at Drumcree. In between these assignments, she has covered stories in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden.

Muriel joined CNN in April 1999, from the U.K.'s Channel 4 where she was duty editor for Channel 4 news, running the domestic and international news desks. She also worked as a producer for the channel's weekly political chat show.

From 1992-1998 Muriel was based in Hong Kong, where she worked as a program editor for CNBC Asia, responsible for the world and business news flagship Breakfast Show. She also edited CNBC Asia's business program The Winners, profiling high-flyers in Asia. Before this, she was bureau chief for ABN Hong Kong (now part of the CNBC network) in 1995 and was deputy news manager for WTN (now APTV) Hong Kong, from 1992-1995, responsible for newsgathering and news delivery for the news agency from Afghanistan to Australia inclusive.

Before moving to Hong Kong, Muriel was a satellite editor for WTN London and producer of Business Daily, a half hour Channel 4 news program.

Muriel started her professional career as a trainee chartered accountant with Ernst & Whinney (now Cap Gemini Ernst & Young) after earning a bachelor of arts degree in English literature at Exeter University.