Barbara Starr is a Pentagon correspondent for CNN, based in the network's Washington, D.C., bureau.
Since 2003, Starr has made repeated trips to Iraq and Afghanistan, traveling with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Gen. John Abizaid and U.S. special forces. In 2005, she was embedded with U.S. troops located on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Starr had exclusive access to Lt. Gen. Russel Honore as the only reporter traveling with him as he directed hurricane relief efforts. Starr has also reported directly from the Persian Gulf, Russia and the Chinese-North Korean border. She also provides viewers with the latest news each day from the Pentagon regarding the war in Iraq and the war on terrorism.
Starr joined CNN in 2001 from ABC News where she had worked since 1998 as a producer for the network's news originating from the Pentagon, providing on- and off-air reporting on military and national security affairs. She also reported for Nightline, World News This Morning, World News Now, ABC Radio and ABCNews.com.
Previously, Starr was the Washington, D.C., bureau chief for Jane’s Defence Weekly, a London-based weekly newsmagazine, where for nine years she covered all aspects of national security, the intelligence community, defense and military policy. During this time, she conducted numerous one-on-one interviews with current secretaries of defense and directors of central intelligence. She also traveled to the Balkans, the Persian Gulf and NATO headquarters in Brussels. Before Jane’s, Starr worked at Business Week where she was a correspondent from 1979-1988. Based in the magazine's Washington, D.C., bureau, she served as energy correspondent, covering OPEC and other environmental and economic matters.
While at ABC News, she won an Emmy Award as a location producer at NORAD/Cheyenne Mountain, covering the transition to the new millennium at Moscow rollover time.
Starr graduated from California State at Northridge with a bachelor of arts degree in journalism.
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