Rebecca Wright

Senior Field Producer

Rebecca Wright is an award-winning Senior Field Producer for CNN, based at the network's Asia-Pacific headquarters in Hong Kong.
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Food is delivered to prisoners in their cells through a small hatch.
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Exclusive: Inside the prison that executes people for supplying cannabis
Oct 21, 2024
Though he is provided with a straw mat, Matthew says he prefers to sleep on the concrete floor of his cell in the maximum-security wing of Singapore’s Changi Prison.
Students chant slogans near a vandalised mural of Bangladesh's ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, during a protest demanding accountability and trial against Hasina, near Dhaka University in the capital on August 12, 2024.
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Student leaders reveal prison ‘nightmare’ after Gen Z revolution sets them free
Sep 4, 2024
The banging on the door started just after sunrise, when law student Iftekhar Alam was still sleeping in his fifth-floor apartment.
Jamila Begum and her four orphaned grandchildren.
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Massacre survivors say history is repeating – with new perpetrators
Aug 29, 2024
Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh report mass murder, bombing attacks on civilians, and burning villages – which bear hallmarks of 2017 Myanmar attacks labeled a genocide by UN experts.
Residents of Feni in Bangladesh walk to higher ground after severe flooding.
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Millions in this country are stranded by flooding. Many blame their neighbor
Aug 27, 2024
Wading through muddy floodwaters up to chest height, hundreds of people slowly make their way to safety, their belongings held high above their heads to keep them dry.
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‘Are we not eating tonight?’ Myanmar’s military junta accused of using hunger as a ‘weapon’ by blocking vital food aid
Aug 25, 2024
Disturbing accounts from multiple aid workers suggest hunger is being used as a weapon of war in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state.
Scenes of severe flooding in Feni, in southeastern Bangladesh, on Friday, August 23, 2024.
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Floods kill more than 30, impact millions in Bangladesh and northeast India
Aug 24, 2024
Rescuers are scrambling to evacuate flooded communities after heavy rains inundated parts of Bangladesh and northeast India, killing at least 36 people and causing rivers on both sides of the border to reach extreme levels.
The video of Mugdho handing out water before his death on July 18 punctured the social news feeds of millions across Bangladesh, turning him into a martyr for the movement.
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This student was handing out bottles of water to protesters. Minutes later, he was dead
Aug 12, 2024
Using his sleeve to wipe tear gas from his burning eyes, 25-year-old Mugdho weaves through the crowd, handing out bottles of water to the protesters whose demands for reform would soon topple Bangladesh’s leader.
A turtle swims in a shallow lagoon at Lady Elliot Island, off the Queensland Coast.
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‘Like wildfires underwater’: Worst summer on record for Great Barrier Reef as coral die-off sweeps planet
May 4, 2024
As the early morning sun rises over the Great Barrier Reef, its light pierces the turquoise waters of a shallow lagoon, bringing more than a dozen turtles to life.
Coral bleaching in the lagoon of the Great Barrier Reef's Lady Elliot Island, on February 19, 2024.
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Ocean heat is driving a global coral bleaching event, and it could be the worst on record
Apr 15, 2024
At least 54 countries are experiencing mass coral bleaching as the climate crisis drives ocean temperatures to record-breaking levels
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What it’s like on board an outnumbered Philippine ship facing down China’s push to dominate the South China Sea
Mar 6, 2024
China’s push to dominate South China Sea has sparked violent clashes with neighbors in recent years — particularly the Philippines, a mutual defense ally of the US.
Jonathan Dekel-Chen holding photo/poster of his missing son, Sagui Dekel-Chen.
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‘Hope is hard to come by’: In the Red Sea resort of Eilat, Israeli survivors from October 7 face a new threat
Nov 21, 2023
As the red alert alarm sounded in the busy hotel dining hall, many of the children scattered in fear, as the horrors of the Hamas massacre on October 7 came flooding back.
Men walk along the border of Gaza in southern Israel on November 13, 2023.
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Israel shows alleged Hamas ‘armory’ under children’s hospital in Gaza. Local health officials dismiss the claims
Nov 14, 2023
The Israeli military’s focus on hospitals in Gaza is growing more intense with a spokesperson inviting news media to visit a medical center for children on Monday, where he alleged parts of the basement had been a Hamas “command and control center” and may have been used to hold hostages.
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Witness to a massacre: Israeli festival survivor returns to site of Hamas rampage
Nov 4, 2023
Aliza Samuel walks carefully through debris left strewn across the ground, picking up a bracelet before coming across some small clay trinkets that had been handmade during the Nova Music Festival.
Philippine Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro talks during an interview with CNN in Manila, Philippines on September 29, 2023.
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Exclusive: Philippine defense secretary vows to stand up to ‘bully’ China
Sep 29, 2023
China is behaving like a schoolyard bully toward smaller countries, the Philippines defense secretary told CNN Friday during an exclusive interview in which he said his nation had to stand up to Beijing’s territorial expansion in the South China Sea.
Oleksandr Havriluk with some of the Russian anti-tank mines he dug up in his fields using a metal detector.
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Clearing land mines by hand, farmers in Ukraine risk their lives for planting season
Mar 27, 2023
The first time Oleksandr Havriluk returned to his farm after it had been stormed and occupied by Russian troops, tears rolled down his face when he saw what they had left behind.
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‘I killed a man today’: Russian soldier accused of war crimes in absentia after audio files intercepted
Mar 21, 2023
A Russian soldier who allegedly shot a civilian in an extraordinary attack caught on camera by a Ukrainian drone is being accused of war crimes in absentia by the Ukrainian police.

About

Rebecca Wright is an award-winning Senior Field Producer for CNN, based at the network’s Asia-Pacific headquarters in Hong Kong.

She is responsible for producing key stories from the region, and has covered breaking news on the Hong Kong protests and the Thai cave rescue. She also played an instrumental role in the Trump-Kim summit in Singapore, and has produced environmental documentaries on the Great Barrier Reef and the Borneo fires. Wright has also covered the Rohingya crisis extensively, reporting from Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh and Rakhine State in Myanmar.

Before joining CNN in 2012, Wright was a producer for the BBC in London for more than six years working across both television and radio.

Wright has won multiple awards for her work, including a Royal Television Society award for the Hong Kong protest coverage, ContentAsia and Society for News Design awards for the Borneo is Burning special, and two Asia Academy Creative Awards for stories on the Great Barrier Reef and the Sri Lanka terror attacks.

Wright studied English Literature at Newcastle University, where she was News Editor of the student newspaper The Courier. She then joined the BBC news trainee graduate scheme which included a scholarship for a Postgraduate Diploma in Journalism Studies at Cardiff University.