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Reena Ninan
Born (1979-04-18) April 18, 1979 (age 45)
Tampa, Florida, U.S.
Alma materGeorge Washington University (B.A., Political Communication, 2001[1])
Occupation(s)Television journalist and commentator
Years active1999–present
SpouseKevin Peraino
Children2
Reena Ninan interviewing Michael Bennet in 2019.

Reena Ninan (born April 18, 1979) is an Indian American television journalist who works for the national mainstream media. She currently works for CNN as the Veteran Foreign Affairs Correspondent.[2][3] Ms. Ninan is also the founder of her news company Good Trouble Productions.[4][5]

Education

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Ms. Ninan was valedictorian at C. Leon King High School in Tampa, FL in 1997 in her class of 576 graduates.[6]

Reena earned a bachelor’s degree in political communication with a minor in women’s studies from The George Washington University, School of Media and Public Affairs in 2001.[7] Reena delivered a message to George Washington University graduates in 2020 via Facebook.[8]

Career

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News (1999-Present)

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1999-2003

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Ms. Ninan began her career as a producer at the Washington Post and a freelancer for BET & ABC News.

2004-2012

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From 2004 to 2012, she reported for Fox News Channel, becoming Fox News' Middle East Correspondent in 2007 until she left the network in 2012. She has reported from throughout the world, including Libya, Indonesia, India, Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, and Iraq during the Iraq War. In 2009, Reena was hit with tear gas in a West Bank village in Jerusalem while covering protests.[9] In July 2011, she was named one of Glamour magazine's "Women on the Front Lines."

2005 Palestine Hotel incident

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Reena was staying at Palestine Hotel in Baghdad, Iraq when it was truck bombed on October 24th, 2005. Reena went live at the hotel on Fox News in less than 3 minutes. The wall was missing from her hotel room as a result of the blasts. Ms. Ninan went unharmed.[10][11]

2012-2015

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From 2012-2015, Ms. Ninan worked at ABC News. Ninan began working at ABC News in 2012 in the Washington bureau, where she covered the White House and the State Department. She later moved to New York, reporting for Good Morning America and continuing to travel abroad as a foreign correspondent.[12][13][14] In April 2015, Ninan was named co-anchor of ABC's early morning shows World News Now and America This Morning, alongside T. J. Holmes.[15]

2016-2020

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From 2016-2020, Ms. Ninan worked at CBS News. She was also a solo anchor of CBSN with a reported salary of $2 million per year. She was the Saturday night anchor of the CBS Weekend News. She also reported for CBS Evening News, CBS This Morning & other CBS broadcasts.[16][17][18]

2021-Present

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In 2021, Reena hosted The Recount Daily Podcast for 20 minutes each morning.[19]

From 2023-present, Ninan has been the Veteran Affairs Correspondent of CNN.[20][21]

Good Trouble Productions (2020-Present)

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Ninan is the founder & owner of her own media company Good Trouble Productions.[22]

Ninan has hosted the Ask Lisa Podcast along with psychologist Dr. Lisa Damour to help with parenting tips since the summer of 2020.[23][24]

Since December 2020, Darien TV79 has played reruns on Fridays of The Rebound, stories of how people made it out of their darkest moments to find the light.[25]

Since 2021, Ms. Ninan has hosted a podcast called HERO: The Hidden Economics of Remarkable Women. The podcast is partially funded by Foreign Policy and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.[26][27][28][29]

Ms. Ninan is a former member of the Council on Foreign Relations & currently works as a presider of their public forums.[30][31]

Reena announced on Ask Lisa Vodcast she had used the summer of 2023 to increase her protein intake to 120 grams per day. Reena later announced she had been weightlifting.[32] Ms. Briceno said "Ms. Ninan taking 120 grams of protein per day is giving her that full look." Ms. Reena Ninan was asked to be the celebrity ambassador of a bodybuilding show owned by International Fitness and Bodybuilding Federation Pro female bodybuilder Tivisay Briceno on Clearwater Beach, FL on November 23rd, 2024.[33]

Ms. Ninan hosted the 2024 Sheroes in Media Awards by the Multicultural Media & Correspondents Association (MMCA) on March 27th, 2024.[34]

Personal life

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Ninan is married to author and former Newsweek reporter Kevin Peraino. They have two children.[35][12][36]

External resources

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ GW Arts & Sciences [@gwucolumbian] (May 12, 2020). "A message from @reenaninan, BA '01, for the Class of 2020. #CCASOnward" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  2. ^ She has been inside tunnels built by Hamas under Gaza. Hear why they might matter now, CNN Official Website, access 08/02/2024
  3. ^ How the US could respond to the drone attack on Tower 22, CNN Official Website, access 08/02/2024
  4. ^ Darien Resident’s “Ask Lisa” Podcast Makes an Impact Near and Far, Moffly Media, Deepinder K Kanwal
  5. ^ News & Bodybuilding!, The Patch, July 30 2024, Alympia Peaceful
  6. ^ King High grads say poignant goodbye, Tampa Bay Times, June 5th 1997, by Linda Chion-kenney
  7. ^ REENA NINAN IS NAMED A CBS NEWS CORRESPONDENT, Christa Robinson, 04/20/2013, Paramount Press Express
  8. ^ Reena Ninan Shares Message for CCAS Graduates, GWU Columbian College of Arts and Sciences Facebook, May 8th 2020
  9. ^ FNC Crew Hit with Tear Gas During Report, Fox News, July 10th 2009, by Chris Ariens
  10. ^ Fox News: "On Air Personalities: Reena Ninan" retrieved May 8, 2011
  11. ^ Alex Weprin (June 25, 2011). TVNewser: "Fox News Correspondent Named 'Woman on the Front Lines' by Glamour". Retrieved June 25, 2011.
  12. ^ a b Chris Ariens (April 8, 2015) TVNewser: "Reena Ninan Named Anchor of World News Now, America This Morning"
  13. ^ "ABC News Hires Reena Ninan From FOX News". Mediabistro.com. Archived from the original on 3 February 2012.
  14. ^ "Gone From The Eye". FTVLive. 6 July 2020.
  15. ^ Reena Ninan named co-anchor of ABC’s ‘America This Morning’ and ‘World News Now’, Los Angeles Times, April 8 2015, By Stephen Battaglio
  16. ^ April 2016, Michael Malone 20 (20 April 2016). "Reena Ninan Joins CBS News as Correspondent". Broadcasting Cable.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  17. ^ REENA NINAN IS NAMED A CBS NEWS CORRESPONDENT, Christa Robinson, 04/19/2016, Paramount Press Express]
  18. ^ News & Bodybuilding!, The Patch, July 30 2024, Alympia Peaceful
  19. ^ The Recount Podcast Network Is Putting Women First: 'Perspective and Experience', People (magazine), August 23rd 2021, JD Knapp
  20. ^ She has been inside tunnels built by Hamas under Gaza. Hear why they might matter now, CNN Official Website, access 08/02/2024
  21. ^ How the US could respond to the drone attack on Tower 22, CNN Official Website, access 08/02/2024
  22. ^ Darien Resident’s “Ask Lisa” Podcast Makes an Impact Near and Far, Moffly Media, Deepinder K Kanwal
  23. ^ Darien Resident’s “Ask Lisa” Podcast Makes an Impact Near and Far, Moffly Media, Deepinder K Kanwal
  24. ^ The 20 Best Parenting Podcasts That Will Make You Laugh, Cry and Possibly Get Your Tubes Tied, PureWow, April 10th 2023, by Emma Singer
  25. ^ TV79 to Broadcast ‘The Rebound,’ an Interview Show by Veteran Journalist Reena Ninan of Darien, Darienite.com, December 7 2020
  26. ^ Reena Ninan bio 01, Council on Foreign Relations official website, accessed 08-03-2024
  27. ^ Reena Ninan bio 02, Council on Foreign Relations official website, accessed 08-03-2024
  28. ^ Reena Ninan bio 03, Council on Foreign Relations official website, accessed 08-03-2024
  29. ^ What’s Your Favorite Foreign Policy Podcast?, American University, May 3 2024, by Kay Summers
  30. ^ Home and Abroad Public Forum: U.S. Strategy and the War in Ukraine, CFR Official Website, May 4th 2023
  31. ^ Conflict in the Middle East—The Israel-Hamas War, CFR Official Website, October 26th 2023
  32. ^ Episode #132: Never Enough: Confronting Toxic Achievement Culture (with Author Jennifer Wallace), Ask Lisa Vodcast, August 22nd, 2023
  33. ^ News & Bodybuilding!, The Patch, July 30 2024, Alympia Peaceful
  34. ^ Multicultural Media & Correspondents Association honors Sheroes in Media at 2024 ceremony, Atlanta Voice, May 1, 2024
  35. ^ Molly Stark Dean (January 6, 2011). TVNewser: "Fox News’ Reena Ninan & Newsweek‘s Kevin Peraino: It’s a Boy!" Retrieved May 8, 2011.
  36. ^ Ninan & Peraino Welcome Baby Boy!, Fish Bowl DC, January 5th 2011, By Matt Dornic


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