Jessica Yellin is a national political correspondent based in Washington, D.C., tasked with reporting on the most important stories on politics, policy and culture for such programs as The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Campbell Brown: No Bias, No Bull. Yellin joined CNN as a Capitol Hill correspondent in August 2007.
As a member of the Best Political Team on Television, Yellin played a key part of the network's innovative America Votes 2008 election coverage, including a notable appearance as a hologram in CNN's Election Center headquarters in New York City. Throughout the campaign, she traveled to key battleground states to cover and interview the candidates.
Prior to CNN, Yellin was a White House correspondent for ABC News. She began with ABC in July 2003 and reported on politics and culture for such programs as World News, Good Morning America and Nightline. She has interviewed Presidents Bill Clinton and George H. W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush. She has also reported from around the globe, including Russia, China, Europe, Latin America and Mongolia.
Prior to joining ABC News, Yellin was an overnight anchor and correspondent for MSNBC. She covered the 2000 recount in Florida as a general assignment reporter at WTVT-TV in Tampa. She began her broadcast career in 1998 as a general assignment reporter for Orlando's 24-hour cable news channel, Central Florida News 13. In 1999, she was named morning anchor.
Yellin's work has been published in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Details and Entertainment Weekly. She was a Los Angeles-based reporter for George Magazine. Prior to that, she served as front-of-the-book editor at Los Angeles Magazine, where she contributed and edited stories on politics, Hollywood and cultural issues.
Yellin graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard University.
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