The Making of Malveaux
CNN’s White House correspondent discusses the impact of having educators as parents and how higher education shaped her journalism career.
Title: White House Correspondent, CNN
Education: B.A., Sociology, Harvard University; M.A., Journalism, Columbia University
Experience: Reporter, New England Cable News, Boston; Reporter, WRC-TV, Washington, D.C.; Correspondent, NBC News, Washington, D.C., and Chicago
Birthplace: Lansing, Mich.
By Ronald Roach
Known to millions for her incisive and scrupulous reporting, CNN White House Correspondent Suzanne Malveaux has drawn considerable praise as a broadcast journalist throughout her career. For the past five years, Malveaux has covered the Bush White House and national affairs for CNN, making her one of the most visible women of color in American journalism.
Since joining CNN’s Washington bureau in 2002, Malveaux has broken a number of major stories for the cable television news network, among them the plea arrangement of disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff and the retirement of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.
