Scott McLean is an International Correspondent for CNN, based in Istanbul.

McLean was previously based at the network’s London bureau, having moved there in 2019 after more than two years as a National Correspondent in CNN’s Denver bureau. Prior to this, he was a Washington-based Correspondent for CNN Newsource.

Since joining CNN, McLean has covered a wide range of stories including the 2016 Presidential Election and inauguration of President Trump, the 2016 Democratic National Convention, the Pulse nightclub shooting, the Las Vegas shooting in 2017, and hurricanes Matthew, Harvey, Florence and Michael. He covered the 2016 magnitude 6.2 earthquake that struck central Italy, President Obama’s historic trip to Cuba and the death of former Cuban leader Fidel Castro a few months later.

In 2018, McLean contributed to CNN’s wall-to-wall coverage of now-Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing. He spent weeks covering the devastating Carr, Camp and Woolsey fires in California, and was on the big island of Hawaii for almost a month during the eruption of the Kilauea volcano. While there, he had to duck for cover several times while interviewing a man defending his friend’s property from a near-constant incoming of ‘lava bombs’ erupting from a nearby fissure. Days later, that man became the sole victim of the eruption, after being hit by a chunk of flying lava. McLean was the only correspondent to interview him before he was hit. Most recently, McLean covered the historic flooding in Venice, and travelled to Scotland to report on the Liberal Democrats and the Scottish National Party during CNN’s special coverage of the 2019 UK General Election.

Before joining CNN, McLean was a reporter and anchor at CTV News in Calgary, Alberta, where his original reporting led to major policy changes at the Calgary Police, and a formal investigation of the former chief. Prior to that, he was an anchor and reporter for Global News in Vancouver, British Columbia, and Regina, Saskatchewan where he covered the 2012 US Election from Minneapolis, Minnesota, and produced a major investigation into the jail system in Saskatchewan, which prompted debate in the provincial legislature.

McLean graduated from York University in Toronto. He is conversant in French and studying Arabic.