Elizabeth Wolfe covers breaking news and feature stories for CNN’s National Digital team based out of the Los Angeles bureau.

Since joining the desk in 2022, her coverage has included some of the nation’s most pressing stories related to extreme weather, policing, gun violence and high-profile criminal trials. Her feature pieces have explored topics ranging from extreme drought in the American West to the community impact of a 2023 mass shooting in a Southern California dance studio.

Elizabeth joined CNN as an intern in 2019 and soon became a researcher for the network’s editorial oversight team, The Row. There, she helped vet some of CNN’s most sensitive stories, including sifting through thousands of leaked whistleblower documents as part of the team behind the 2021 “Facebook Papers” reporting. She also supported CNN’s live fact-checking team during the 2020 presidential election.

Prior to CNN, Elizabeth was a freelance arts and style writer. She is a graduate of Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia.