Biography
Vanessa Yurkevich is a journalist and a CNN business and politics journalist who covers this subject across the network’s digital and broadcast platforms.
Age
Vanessa is 38 years old as of November 29, 2023. She was born on November 29, 1985 in Montclair, New Jersey, United States.
Education
Yurkevich graduated with a bachelor’s degree in communications and Spanish from Fordham University. She speaks Spanish fluently. She also has a degree from Hunter College in Polish language study, and she is presently pursuing a graduate certificate in business economics at Harvard University.
Husband and Wedding
Vanessa is dating a man by the name Lobo. The couple has not annouced anything about their marriage plans or wedding.
Salary
She earns an annual salary of atleast $ 500, 000.
Vanessa Work at CNN
Yurkevich covered a number of labor strikes in 2023, including the United Auto Workers union strike, SAG-AFTRA, the Writers Guild of America, and the New York City nurses strike. During the historic six-week UAW strike against Ford, Stellantis, and General Motors, Yurkevich oversaw the network’s coverage of the action. During the height of the strike, she was able to secure important live interviews with Jim Farley of Ford and Mary Barra of GM. In addition, Yurkevich revealed that a settlement was negotiated this summer between UPS and the Teamsters union, averting a disastrous strike.
Throughout the pandemic, Yurkevich focused on reporting on how the economy affected regular Americans. She covered supply chain problems, inflation, labor shortages, small company hardships, and the unemployment crisis while touring the nation. She goes on to discuss the ways in which the Federal Reserve, Department of Agriculture, Department of Small Business Administration, and Labor Department are tackling the ongoing economic recovery.
In the past, Yurkevich covered the 2019 government shutdown, the UAW strike against General Motors, and the exclusive interview with former Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue during the height of the trade war. She has also conducted exclusive interviews with Richard Branson, world leaders like Crown Prince Haakon and Princess Mette-Marit of Norway, and corporate executives like Jeff Gennette, CEO of Macy’s.
While covering Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg on the 2020 campaign trail, Yurkevich also spoke with prospective contenders Howard Schultz, Beto O’Rourke, and Governor Jay Inslee. She has also covered immigration in great detail and has worked from the US-Mexico border. Exclusive images that Yurkevich was able to get initially revealed the terrible circumstances under which kids are kept under the custody of the Border Patrol. She also spent months embedded with three border patrol agents and was granted exclusive access to the US Border Patrol Academy.
In order to engage with voters, Yurkevich set off on a one-month road journey as part of CNN’s acclaimed #MyVote Campaign Camper tour during the 2016 presidential election. She won an Edward R. Murrow, Webby, and PROMAXBDA award for anchoring CNN’s digital coverage from the Empire State Building on Election Night.
Yurkevich began working at CNN after previously holding positions at Associated Press Television, BBC, The New York Times – The Local, and NY1 News and NY1 Noticias in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was awarded the US – Russia Young Media Professionals Fellowship by the Knight Foundation as well as the Scripps Howard Immigration Fellowship from the International Center for Journalists.
