Monday, December 11, 2006
CNN Promotes Cal Perry to Baghdad Bureau Chief
Source: CNN Press Release CNN has promoted Baghdad bureau director Cal Perry to bureau chief, it was announced today by Tony Maddox, senior vice president of international newsgathering operations. As bureau chief, Perry manages CNN’s coverage in Baghdad and throughout Iraq.“The Baghdad bureau chief stands as one of the most important and challenging jobs in journalism today and is certainly a critical position within CNN’s international newsgathering efforts,” Maddox said. “Cal has more than proven his mettle with our coverage from Iraq in recent months, and we’re eager to see his work from the region in the future.”
Perry joined the network in 2003 shortly after the initial coalition invasion in Iraq, working on the International Desk as an editor. Soon after, he was assigned as a Baghdad-based producer, a role which placed him as an embedded reporter among troops fighting in Mosul, Fallujah, Ramadi, Baghdad and elsewhere in Iraq. In addition to his coverage in Iraq, Perry covered the death of Yasser Arafat and other stories involving the Israeli-Palestine conflict.
In 2006, Perry covered the war in Lebanon as both a producer and on-air correspondent. He and correspondent Karl Penhaul were the first journalists to arrive in Tyre, Lebanon, amid fighting there. Perry also created and produced the CNN Presents documentary Combat Hospital, which detailed the real-life drama inside the 10th Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad.
Perry earned his political science degree from Skidmore College.
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