Julia Vargas Jones is a correspondent for CNN Newsource based in Los Angeles. Vargas Jones’ award-winning work has been behind some of the biggest news stories around the world. Most recently, she reported on campus unrest from her Alma Mater, Columbia University.

She has reported on the ongoing migration crisis from the U.S.-Mexico border and in recent years she has covered the disinformation around the results of the 2020 presidential election, conspiracy theories, and militant far-right groups in the United States.

Born and raised in Brazil, Vargas Jones has covered the country extensively for CNN, reporting on investigations into former president Jair Bolsonaro and questions over election integrity, the country’s struggles with big tech, and environmental and child labor abuses deep in the Amazon rainforest. From Brazil, Vargas Jones also reported for The New York Times.

In 2021, Vargas Jones won a News & Documentary Emmy Award as part of the CNN team covering the death of George Floyd. She has two other Emmy Awards nominations and won the Edward R. Murrow Award for the coverage of Hurricane Maria’s devastating impact in Puerto Rico in 2018.

Vargas Jones has covered major US and global events in the last decade, from the 2020 election to the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, to the overturning of Roe v. Wade. She traveled to Japan to cover the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and has reported from France, Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, Peru, Colombia, and Brazil.

Vargas Jones holds a master’s degree in journalism and politics from Columbia University and speaks fluent Portuguese, Spanish and French.