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Suzanne M. Malveaux
Malveaux prepares to do a live broadcast at the pier of Naval Station Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on February 21, 2008.
Born (1966-12-04) December 4, 1966 (age 57)
NationalityAmerican

Suzanne M. Malveaux (/suːˈzɑːn mɑːlˈvoʊ/; born December 4, 1966), is an American television news journalist. She co-anchored the CNN international news program Around The World and editions of CNN Newsroom. Malveaux also served as CNN White House correspondent and as primary substitute to Wolf Blitzer on The Situation Room. She joined CNN in 2002 and is based in Washington, D.C..

Early life and education

Malveaux, whose first name is pronounced Sue-zahn,[1] was born in Lansing, Michigan into a New Orleans-based family of Louisiana Creoles, whose roots are of French, Spanish, and African descent.[2] Her father, Floyd J. Malveaux, is a doctor who became the dean of the College of Medicine at Howard University; he is now the executive director of the Merck Childhood Asthma Network and a founder of Howard University's National Human Genome Center.[3][4][5] Her mother, the former Myrna Maria Ruiz, is a retired schoolteacher.[6]

Personal life

She has three siblings:

Columnist and former Bennett College president Julianne Malveaux is a distant cousin.[13]

On the June 3, 2014 episode of The Situation Room, host Wolf Blitzer announced that Malveaux adopted a baby girl.[14]

Her family lived in New Orleans and later Howard County, Maryland, and she attended Centennial High School in Ellicott City, Maryland.

Malveaux graduated from Harvard College with an A.B. cum laude in sociology. At Harvard, she was one year behind future CNN reporter Soledad O'Brien.[1] She graduated with a master's degree in broadcasting from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1991.[1] Suzanne is an honorary member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.

Career

Malveaux's first television job was with New England Cable News as a general assignment reporter in Boston, Massachusetts, from 1992 to 1996.[15] She then moved to Washington, D.C., and worked for NBC affiliate WRC-TV from 1996–1999 as a self-described "rock-and-roll" reporter reporting local and crime news.[citation needed]

In 1999, Meet The Press host Tim Russert recruited Malveaux to join NBC News.[16] She reported for three years first in Washington, including as a Pentagon correspondent, then in Chicago.[citation needed] She covered national stories such as Bill Clinton's impeachment, Elián González, the Kosovo War, the 2000 Presidential Election, the 9/11 attacks, and the 2001 war in Afghanistan.[citation needed]

In August 2007, Malveaux was the moderator of the thirty-first annual convention of the National Association of Black Journalists[17] and has served on various panels at previous conventions of the NABJ, of which she is a member.[18]

In advance of the Democratic and Republican national conventions, Malveaux anchored a 90-minute documentary on then-Senator Barack Obama as part of a two-part series on the 2008 general election presidential candidates. Additionally, she served as a panelist questioning the candidates in the Democratic presidential primary debate in South Carolina sponsored by CNN and the Congressional Black Caucus Institute in January 2008. She also played a key role in CNN's 2004 election coverage and its Emmy-winning 2006 election coverage.

Malveaux later augmented her White House reporting by serving as the primary substitute anchor for The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, a two-hour-long program that airs every weekday on CNN. In 2011, she was named dayside anchor of CNN Newsroom.[19] In 2012, she became host of Aspire TV network's eight part series, "The Root 100".[20]

In 2014, Malveaux's show Around the World was canceled, which allowed her to return to Washington, D.C. to better care for her mother, who suffers from ALS.[21]

Ms. Malveaux is active on Twitter, the popular microblogging platform.

On December 1, 2016, an on-set producer made a statement that Ms. Malveaux did not anticipate and that Ms. Malveaux showed a look of astonishment toward, that involved the producer's joking that Donald Trump's plane had gone down. Ms. Malveaux did not laugh in response to the producer's statement. Ms. Malveaux instead showed a stunned reaction. Ms Malveauz also moved on quickly to another segment for preparing her for their live broadcast. News stories were spawned to attempt to make Ms. Malveaux culpable by suggesting that the provider –and Malveaux were caught on tape before a live video feed joking about President-elect Donald Trump's plane crashing.[22] CNN later issued an apology and stated that the producer had been "disciplined" without providing further elaboration.[23]

As White House correspondent, Malveaux has interviewed former presidents George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush, as well as former first lady Laura Bush. Her coverage of presidential trips overseas has taken her to Europe, the Balkans, Southeast Asia, Africa, Australia, Latin America, and the Middle East.[citation needed]

Bloopers

In June 2015, a London gay pride parade included a parody ISIL flag, replacing the Arabic letters with dildos and butt plugs. Malveaux described the presence of an ISIS flag at a gay pride parade as "unnerving" before a seven-minute live cross to a CNN "terrorism expert" in London.[24][25][26]

References

  1. ^ a b c ""I stand with magic" campaign". Rollingout.com. 2007-12-01. Retrieved 2013-01-23.
  2. ^ "Malveaux: New Orleans family longs to feel at home again - CNN.com". CNN. August 29, 2007.
  3. ^ "Appointments, Tenure Decisions, and Promotions of African Americans in Higher Education", The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, No. 8 (Summer, 1995), pp. 106-108
  4. ^ "Calendars". Aetna. Retrieved 2013-01-23.
  5. ^ "Floyd Malveaux Biography - Earned His Ph.D. and M.D., Studied Allergies and Asthma - University, Research, Howard, and Health - JRank Articles". Biography.jrank.org. Retrieved 2013-01-23.
  6. ^ "The Malveaux Family". malveauxmission.org.
  7. ^ "The Situation Room Sees Double With Suzanne Malveaux And Her Twin Sister". Retrieved 30 June 2010.
  8. ^ "Suzette M. Malveaux – Professor of Law". The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law. Retrieved 10 Aug 2015.
  9. ^ [1]
  10. ^ [2] Archived February 28, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  11. ^ "Richmond GOP". Richmond GOP. Retrieved 2013-01-23.
  12. ^ "Montgomery College Catalog" (PDF). Montgomerycollege.edu. Retrieved 2013-01-23.
  13. ^ "Suzanne Malveaux". ASPiRE.
  14. ^ "CNN". cnn.com.
  15. ^ "CNN TV - Anchors/Reporters:Suzanne Malveaux".
  16. ^ "CNN.com". CNN.
  17. ^ "Worldandnation: Journalists ask if she's 'black enough'". Sptimes.com. 2007-08-10. Retrieved 2013-01-23.
  18. ^ [3] Archived September 7, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  19. ^ "Suzanne Malveaux - Named CNN Anchor - White House - Mediaite". mediaite.com. 19 January 2011.
  20. ^ "Aspire announces the world premiere of its groundbreaking original TV series The Root 100". ASPiRE.
  21. ^ "Malveaux Mission - I'm Suzanne Malveaux and I'm committed to finding a cure for ALS with the Robert Packard Center!". malveauxmission.org.
  22. ^ CNN Crew Caught Joking About Donald Trump’s Plane Crashing, Breitbart, December 2, 2016
  23. ^ CNN apologizes after producer caught on tape joking about Trump’s plane crashing, The Hill, December 2, 2016
  24. ^ "WATCH CNN Dildo ISIS Flag London Gay Pride VIDEO - Mediaite". mediaite.com. 27 June 2015.
  25. ^ Max Fisher. "CNN's most embarrassing flub ever? The ISIS dildo gay pride flag, explained. - Vox". Vox.
  26. ^ "CNN spots "ISIS flag" at gay-pride parade - Business Insider". Business Insider. 27 June 2015.


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