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Melissa Mahtani is govt producer of CBS News Confirmed the place she focuses on creating the tv, digital and social media presentation of the work of the CBS News Confirmed unit, an initiative to establish, fight and inform viewers of misinformation.
Mahtani joined CBS News and Stations in April 2024 with almost 20 years of expertise, together with worldwide reporting, producing content material for a number of platforms and innovating storytelling. She most lately served as a senior producer and reporter for CNN.
CBS News Confirmed brings collectively a crew of extremely expert journalists who use information and know-how to confirm and reality-examine questionable movies and experiences and clarify CBS News’ verification course of.
Before becoming a member of CBS News and Stations, Mahtani labored at CNN, the place she was a senior producer and reporter for CNN’s digital crew. In that function, she reported for CNN’s gender centered “As Equals” crew; was a senior producer for the dwell information crew, writing blogs and masking a number of the most important international occasions and he or she created and launched the “Inside CNN” e-newsletter, which was despatched to greater than 850,000 customers. Additionally, she was a senior producer on CNN’s Facebook Watch present “Go There” and a senior producer on Sanjay Gupta’s “Coronavirus: Fact vs. Fiction” podcast in response to the necessity for info across the outbreak, which earned the 2020 Best Podcast Eppy Award.
Earlier at CNN, she was a producer on “Fareed Zakaria GPS,” “Reliable Sources,” “Erin Burnett Out Front” and “The World Right Now with Hala Gorani.”
During her profession, Mahtani has lived and labored in Zambia, the U.Ok., France, Spain, Italy and the United States. She has additionally interviewed a variety of newsmakers, together with Afghanistan’s youngest mayor, Zarifa Ghafari, and the primary girl of Namibia, in addition to celebrities like Naomi Campbell, Kristin Davis, Adwoa Aboah and Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Prior to CNN, Mahtani was a information producer at France 24 and earlier at ITN. She started her profession at CNBC in 2007.
Mahtani earned a Bachelor of Arts from King’s College London and a postgraduate diploma from the London School of Journalism.
