Ben Hunte is an award-winning anchor and correspondent for CNN, based at the network’s Atlanta bureau. He will host CNN Newsroom on weekends for morning audiences in EMEA, afternoon viewers in Asia, and late-night audiences in the US on CNN International.

He also works across CNN programming as a correspondent with a particular focus on social justice and LGBTQ issues.

Hunte joins CNN from VICE News in London, where he worked as a Global Correspondent, reporting across TV and digital from around the world.

Prior to his time at VICE, he spent five years at the BBC. He was an anchor for the BBC World Service and BBC News Africa, launching the corporation’s first TV show specifically aimed at young audiences across the African continent. He also became the BBC’s first ever dedicated LGBTQ Correspondent, and its West Africa Correspondent.

Hunte was named One Young World’s ‘Journalist of the Year’ in 2020. He has twice been an Emmy Award finalist and a finalist for both the Royal Television Society’s Young Journalist of the Year, and the British Journalism Awards’ ‘Specialist Journalist of the Year’, and took the top spot in the UK’s ‘Pride Power List’ 2020. He was named among Forbes magazine’s 30 Under 30, in 2022.

Before entering journalism, Hunte worked for Google Ireland as a strategic partner manager, during which time he started his own YouTube channel, a move that inspired him to change careers. He has a Bachelor of Science in Cognitive Neuroscience from the University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus, and studied a Master of Arts in Journalism at City, University of London.