Cassie Spodak

Senior Producer for Digital Video News

Cassie Spodak leads CNN's DC digital video news team covering politics. She also produces, writes, shoots and edits original news videos.
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Video Why the odds of knowing who won Pennsylvania on election night are ‘almost zero’ 3:52
Sep 25, 2024
Four years after covering the 2020 election results in Pennsylvania, CNN’s Sara Murray is back in the Keystone State to find out what’s changed as the threat of misinformation spreads around the state’s mail-in voting.
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Black or ‘Other’? Doctors may be relying on race to make decisions about your health
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Race correction in medicine is the use of a patient’s race in a scientific equation that can influence how they are treated. Race correction in medicine has pitted medical students against their teachers, attracted the attention of Congress and led to a big lawsuit against the NFL.
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A new lens on America’s past
Feb 23, 2023
These are the forgotten and untold stories of America’s past, hosted by CNN’s Abby Phillip, Suzanne Malveaux, Omar Jimenez, Athena Jones, Ryan Young, John Avlon and more. Knowing these stories might reshape your understanding of the disparities the country faces today.
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Black women’s roles in the civil rights movement have been understated – but that’s changing
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Claudette Colvin did a revolutionary act nearly 10 months before Rosa Parks.
Jimmy Babb, 51, who was born and raised in Fairhope, said he would support Roy Moore even though he was uncomfortable with the candidate - "For someone to bring up something that happened to someone 40 years ago, I would hate to think any of us are judged by something we did that long ago," Babb told CNN. "I don't know, dating young girls, I still have a tough time with it, I wish we had better options." His stepson, Dylan Williams, wasn't sure he would vote, ""I don't even know if I want to vote, none of the options really seem appealing enough."
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Gallery Alabama voters struggle with support for Roy Moore
Dec 11, 2017
Alabama voters struggle with support for Roy Moore ahead of the special election Tuesday.
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Gallery 2016 candidates respond to NH heroin crisis
Dec 10, 2015
As presidential candidates spend more and more time in the first-in-the-nation primary state of New Hampshire there’s an issue that keeps coming up on the campaign trail: What can be done about the epidemic of heroin addiction and substance abuse in the state? Here’s how candidates have answered.

About

Cassie Spodak is a senior producer for CNN’s digital video team covering national politics. During the 2016 election she traveled the country covering presidential candidates and issues affecting voters.

Spodak started at CNN on the New York Assignment Desk before moving to the Washington, DC bureau. She has produced for all of CNN’s DC based shows and helped launch “The Lead with Jake Tapper” in 2013.

Spodak graduated from Barnard College in New York City.