Vanessa Yurkevich Biography
Vanessa Yurkevich is a media personality serving as a business and politics correspondent for CNN since July 2019. She joined the network in October 2014 as a digital correspondent and she is covering the intersection of business and politics across CNN’s television and digital platforms.
Vanessa Yurkevich Age
Born on November 29, 1985 in the United States, Vanessa is 35 years old.
Vanessa Yurkevich Height
She is 5 feet and 10 inches tall.
Vanessa Yurkevich Nationality
She is an American national.
Vanessa Yurkevich Education
A graduate of Montclair High School, Yurkevich earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Fordham University in Communications and Spanish. She also received a certificate for Polish language from Hunter College and she is fluent in Spanish.
Vanessa Yurkevich Family
Her parents names are unknown though she usually post her mother on her social media platforms. She also has a sister named Allison, a fashion assistant.
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Vanessa Yurkevich Husband
Yurkevich is not married, she is in a relationship with Brian Dutt. Brian is the CEO and founder of Beeroll, an ice skating company.
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Vanessa Yurkevich Kids
She does not have kids yet.
Vanessa Yurkevich CNN
Since July 2019, Yurkevich is a business and politics correspondent for CNN. She covers the intersection of business and politics across CNN’s television and digital platforms. In this role, she most recently covered the historic General Motors strike, the government shutdown and flooding in the Midwest and its impact on farmers there. She also sat down exclusively for a one on one interview with Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue during the height of the trade war.
Vanessa regularly travelled to the heartland to speak to voters to get the pulse of the people. She also covered democratic presidential candidate Mayor Pete Buttigieg and interviewed him on the campaign trail. In addition, she interviewed 2020 presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke, former candidate Governor Jay Inslee and perspective candidate Howard Schultz.
Yurkevich has reported extensively on immigration and has spent time reporting from the US-Mexico border. She obtained exclusive photos showing for the first time the harsh conditions children are in when in Border Patrol’s custody. She also got rare access to the US Border Patrol Academy and produced a three-part series called ‘The Green Wall’ after spending months imbedded with three border patrol agents.
Yurkevich joined CNN in October 2014 as a digital correspondent. She has exclusively interviewed Richard Branson and has sat down with Crown Prince Haakon and Princess Mette-Marit of Norway.
Before joining CNN, she worked for Blouin Artinfo, NY1 News and NY1 Noticias, BBC, The New York Times, The Local and Associated Press Television in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Vanessa Yurkevich Awards
Yurkevich embarked on a one-month road trip for CNN’s award-winning #MyVote Campaign Camper tour. During that time she travelled the country in the final weeks of the 2016 election speaking with Americans about the issues that matter to them. She spent Election Night 2016 anchoring CNN’s digital coverage from the Empire State Building which won an Edward R. Murrow, Webby and PROMAXBDA award.
She also received the Scripps Howard Immigration Fellowship from the International Center for Journalists and the Knight Foundation’s US – Russia Young Media Professionals Fellowship.
Vanessa Yurkevich Salary
Yurkevich earns an average salary of $84,586 per year.
Vanessa Yurkevich Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $500,000.
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