Claremont McKenna College

On Deadline: Writing and Reporting in the 21st Century

JENNIFER MATTSON

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2013
LUNCHEON 11:30 a.m.; LECTURE 12:00 p.m.; PARENTS DINING ROOM

Jennifer Mattson is a former radio producer for "The Connection" and worked as an editor for National Public Radio. She spent over six years as a producer for CNN, where she was responsible for CNN's daily live newscasts and producing CNN's international coverage. Jennifer came to CNN to work in the Washington bureau's political unit during the 1996 U.S. presidential election. She later moved to Atlanta, where she worked first as a writer and then as a newscast producer at CNN International. Prior to joining CNN, Jennifer worked as a reporter based in Budapest, Hungary covering Eastern Europe, where she reported on a number of regional stories for USA TODAY including a piece on George Soros and the Clinton-Yeltsin CSCE Summit. She has also reported, most recently, from Asia.
Her work has appeared in TheAtlantic.com, USA TODAY, The Boston Globe, The Women's Review of Books, AsianCorrespondent.com, Tablettalk.com and CNN.com. She is the former Managing Editor of AsiaSociety.org. Follow her on Twitter at @jennifermattson.

Jennifer Mattson’s visit to CMC is sponsored by the Center for Writing and Public Discourse with generous support from the BLAIS Foundation Challenge Award. For more information please contact Professor Audrey Bilger. abilger@cmc.edu.