Don Melvin is a news desk editor with the CNN Digital News team in London. He reports, writes, and edits news stories on mobile, social and desktop, focusing on Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

He has crisscrossed the globe on his way to nearly 60 countries, covering the aftermath of ethnic cleansing in the Balkans and Rwanda, terrorist attacks in Madrid and London, and famine in southern Sudan.

Don has published books on running and travel as well as two series of children's novels, written under a pseudonym. He speaks French.