Brooke Baldwin

Brooke Baldwin

Brooke Baldwin is the anchor of the 3-5 pm edition of the CNN Newsroom. She took over after Rick Sanchez was let go by CNN in October of 2010. Based in the network’s world headquarters in Atlanta, Baldwin came to the CNN and HLN networks in 2008.

Baldwin reports from location on many breaking news stories, including the oil spill disaster along the Gulf Coast; the collapse of the Upper Big Branch Coal Mine in West Virginia; on-going immigration issues in Georgia; the battle over the fate of the nation’s big three automakers; and she contributed to the network’s award-winning coverage of the 2008 presidential election. In 2009, she exclusively reported on the new discoveries of the forgotten Mayan City of Mirador for CNN International’s “World’s Untold Stories.”

Baldwin joined CNN after serving as a lead reporter for the 10 p.m. newscast for WTTG in Washington, D.C., where she covered the shooting massacres at both Virginia Tech and the West Nickel Mines School, a one-room Amish schoolhouse in southeastern Pennsylvania. At WOWK in Charleston/Huntington, West Virginia, she was the morning anchor and reported on the Sago Mine collapse and Martha Stewart’s release from federal prison. She began her news broadcasting career at WVI R in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Baldwin earned a double bachelor’s degree in journalism and Spanish from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. While at UNC, she also studied at the Universidad Ibero Americana in Mexico City and she is fluent in Spanish.

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