by REERA YOO
Ellana Lee, a Korean-born journalist, has been promoted to senior vice president and managing editor of CNN International, according to CNN’s press release.
In her new position, Lee will be overseeing the network’s feature programming and spearheading business operations internationally, said Tony Maddox, executive vice president and managing editor of CNN International. He added that the promotion now makes Lee the most senior executive outside of the U.S.
Lee has had a longstanding and successful career at CNN since starting work as an intern while studying journalism at New York University. After graduation, she went on to work for the network full-time as a producer in 1997 and was put on the fast track to success. In 2006, she became the youngest managing editor of CNN International Asia Pacific, according to The Chosun Ilbo.
“I slept just a few hours for the first three years at CNN to work at the early morning news program and learned to stay physically fit despite the crazy hours, wake up sources in the early hours of morning for interviews and cheer my colleagues on,” Lee told The Chosun Ilbo.
“I don’t remember any day when I worked less than 12 hours.”
Lee was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and is an Asia 21 fellow as awarded by the Asia Society and is a graduate of Harvard’s ‘Global Leadership and Public Policy for the 21st Century’ Executive Program, according to CNN’s press release.
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