Jomana Karadsheh Biography
Jomana Karadsheh is an American anchor and reporter working for CNN as an International Correspondent. She joined the CNN news team in June 2006, after previously working for CBS News.
Jomana Karadsheh Career
Karadsheh is an award-winning International Correspondent who works out of the network’s office in London. She has done a lot of reporting from Iraq, Libya, Syria, and other places in the Middle East and North Africa for 20 years. Karadsheh worked for CNN in Istanbul for five years before she moved to London. There, she reported on Turkey and the surrounding area. Karadsheh was very important to the network’s coverage of the early 2023 Turkey-Syria earthquake, which was the deadliest earthquake in the area in modern times.
She reported from towns all over the quake zone and was one of the first foreign reporters to be allowed into the opposition-held northwest region of Syria. There, she wrote about how the disaster affected the people and province of Idlib, which was already in the middle of a war. She was in charge of CNN’s coverage of the 2022 protests in Iran for months. Karadsheh worked with CNN teams in Abu Dhabi, London, Hong Kong, and Atlanta to make dozens of compelling reports about the uprising in Iran. Moreover, these reports told the world about young Iranian women and men fighting for their rights as the government cracked down harder on protests.
In June 2021, the US Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee talked about Karadsheh’s exclusive CNN probe into Muslim-majority countries sending Chinese Uyghurs back to China. Karadsheh was on the CNN team that covered the killing of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi mission in Istanbul for weeks in 2018. Less than 24 hours after Khashoggi went missing after entering the consulate, Karadsheh was one of the first reporters to arrive at the scene. She talked to Khashoggi’s fiancé and reported live from outside the mission. Karadsheh and her team were able to see Turkish military activities in Northeast Syria in 2019. They also saw the Turkish Navy search and rescue operations in the Aegean Sea in 2020 only while she was working in Turkey.
Karadsheh has also written a lot about the war in Syria and the influx of refugees into nearby countries. She went to Syria several times as a reporter, including to the capital, Damascus, which is run by the government. Karadsheh was also one of the first reporters to visit the al-Hol Camp in northeastern Syria in 2019. There, she covered the fall of ISIS and the women and children from other countries who were being held there. The news from al-Hol was picked up by outlets all over the world. Karadsheh has also written about big stories from several Gulf Arab states. She has covered the 2017 Saudi-led boycott of Qatar and the 2018 Saudi Arabian government’s decision to let women drive. Karadsheh also often reported from Abu Dhabi, which is CNN’s regional hub.
In 2013, US special forces caught “one of the world’s most wanted terrorists” in Libya. Hours later, Karadsheh had an exclusive conversation with Abu Anas al-Libi’s wife. Abu Anas al-Libi was a former member of al-Qaeda. Karadsheh worked for CNN in 2011 and had the chance to cover the Arab Spring in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, and Syria. Moreover, many people loyal to the late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi held her and other foreign reporters hostage. They were held at the Rixos Hotel in Tripoli in August 2011. Moreover, people praised Karadsheh for her work in getting the group released.
Later that year, Karadsheh went back to Tripoli and stayed there until fighting between militias destroyed the main airport in 2014 and spread to the rest of the city. During her time in Libya, Karadsheh covered things like Saif al-Islam Gadhafi’s capture and trial as well as the country’s first democratic polls after Gadhafi’s fall. Karadsheh was the only American TV reporter in Libya in September 2012 who could report live from the scene of the attack on the US mission in Benghazi. Karadsheh started her career as a producer and reporter at CNN’s Baghdad bureau from 2005 to 2011.
She covered big news stories like the trials and execution of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. She also covered Iraq’s first democratic elections and the withdrawal of US troops from the country. Many CNN reporters were in Iraq in 2014 and 2015. They covered the rise of ISIS and the fight to take back towns from the terrorist group. However, in the year 2020, she was one of the first American network reporters to report from Baghdad on the US strike that killed Iranian General Qassem Solaimani. Karadsheh grew up in Amman, Jordan, and speaks both Arabic and English. Moreover, She studied print writing at the Lebanese American University in Beirut.
Jomana Karadsheh Salary
Karadsheh earns a salary of about $47,000-$120,000.
Jomana Karadsheh Net Worth
Karadsheh has an estimated net worth of about $1 Million – $7 Million which she has earned through her career as an International Correspondent.
Jomana Karadsheh Age
Karadsheh was born on November 11, 1981, in Amman, Jordan. She is 42 years old as of 2023, and she celebrates her birthday on the 11th of November every year.
Jomana Karadsheh Height and Weight
Karadsheh stands at a height of 5 feet 7 inches tall (1.70m) and weighs 59kgs (130 lbs)
Jomana Karadsheh Family
Karadsheh likes to keep her personal life private hence she has neither disclosed the names of her parent nor those of her siblings. However, this information will be updated when available.
Jomana Karadsheh Husband and Children
Karadsheh is married to Scott who is a former NHS and military paramedic. The two are blessed with a son whose name is not known to the public. However, this information will be updated when available.
Jomana Karadsheh Social Media Platform
Karadsheh is very active on her Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook pages. She has 30.8k followers on Twitter 18.8k followers on Instagram, and 3.2k followers on Facebook.