Isobel Yeung is a multi-award-winning International Correspondent for CNN, based in the network’s London bureau.
Known for her long-form investigations and ground-breaking reports from conflict zones all over the world, she reports on major stories for CNN’s television and digital platforms.
Prior to CNN, Yeung worked as a senior correspondent and producer at VICE News, creating content that appeared across HBO, Hulu and Showtime. In her nearly 10 years there, she reported on a wide range of geopolitical, social, cultural and human rights stories from every corner of the globe including Afghanistan, China, Iraq, Libya, the Philippines, Russia, Syria, Ukraine and Yemen.
In the last year, Yeung gained access to Iran to cover the women-led uprising a year after Mahsa Amini’s death; went undercover in Mexico to infiltrate a network of Chinese gangsters laundering drug proceeds for the cartels; and traveled to a Russian summer camp where Ukrainian children had been illegally sent. She has also reported extensively from the occupied West Bank as part of an investigation for the BBC into the conduct of Israel’s security forces.
She has won multiple journalism awards for her work, including 10 Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, a duPont-Columbia Award, a Royal Television Society Television Journalism Award, multiple Overseas Press Club Awards, and the Foreign Press Association’s Journalist of the Year Award.