Rachel Smolkin is Senior Vice President of International Information at CNN Digital Worldwide, the place she leads breaking information, US, politics, EMEA and APAC protection and groups throughout CNN's world digital platforms.
Smolkin's management unifies CNN's core journalism promise as a unified, world information workforce serving audiences in all places. She works throughout the group to assist join and globalize crucial points going through our world at present, together with the pandemic, the local weather disaster, equality and human rights.
The earlier yr, Smolkin served as vice chairman of stories at CNN Digital, main the U.S.-based nationwide information, politics and breaking information groups after spending six years on the helm of CNN Politics.
Beforehand, Smolkin served as vice chairman and editor in chief of CNN Politics, overseeing the community's protection of Washington, politics and elections. In that position, she led the creation of CNN's politics model within the digital house, hiring a workforce of greater than 50 reporters, editors and social producers and constructing it into the main politics web site for 3 years, in response to ComScore. She additionally helped lead the industry-leading integration of tv and digital in CNN's Washington bureau and in addition leads KFile's investigative unit.
Earlier than becoming a member of CNN, she was editor in chief at Politico, the place she oversaw each day information protection. She additionally labored as an editor at USA At the moment and as editor in chief of the American Journalism Evaluation journal.
Smolkin holds an MBA from the College of Virginia Darden Faculty of Enterprise and a bachelor's diploma from Brown College, the place she graduated magna cum laude. She can be a graduate of the Sulzberger Government Management Program at Columbia College.
Smolkin lives in Arlington, Virginia together with her husband and two kids.