Alphonso Van Marsh is a correspondent for CNN, based out of London. He is part of the new breed of reporters who can shoot, write and edit their own material in the field utilizing CNN's laptop-based 'Digital Newsgathering' system.
Previously based in Johannesburg, South Africa, Marsh covers news when it happens with traditional newsgathering teams as well as by using lightweight cameras and advanced satellite and Internet communications technology. In December 2003, he shot the exclusive footage of U.S. troops in Iraq celebrating upon their return from the capture of Saddam Hussein.
From HIV/AIDS in Africa to the conflict in the Middle East to a modern day serial killer in England, Marsh has reported on a variety of stories. Most recently Van Marsh produced and reported a week-long series marking the abolition of slavery in the British Empire.
Before being named as a full-time correspondent, Marsh was a writer, show producer and correspondent for CNN International. He has served as CNN’s bureau operations director in Johannesburg, an associate producer for newsmagazine “CNN & Time” in the investigative unit and as the interim bureau chief for CNN in Nairobi, Kenya. Marsh joined CNN in 1995 as a freelance correspondent and producer.
Marsh, who was once based in Istanbul, Turkey for CNN, has worked as a journalist in dozens of countries throughout his career including Afghanistan, Egypt, Yemen, Togo and Cuba. In Cairo, Egypt, he was a correspondent/video journalist for The New York Times-Video News International. And, he has also been a Medill News Service correspondent for KEZI-TV in Eugene, Oregon and WHO-AM in Des Moines, Iowa.
He has received numerous awards for his international reporting skills including a Headliner Award for his exclusive reporting on the capture of Saddam Hussein. He has also won multiple awards from the National Association of Black Journalists as well as honors for his deadline, business, documentary, feature and sports reporting, photography and editing skills. Marsh has been a fellow with the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and the German Marshall Fund of the United States.
Marsh holds a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley and a Masters in Journalism from Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism.
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