Suzanne Malveaux
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United States
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television news
News
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reporter.
She is currently the anchor of CNN Newsroom 11am to 1pm. Before that she was White House
White House
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correspondent for CNN
CNN
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and primary substitute host on CNNs "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer". She joined CNN in 2002.
In August 2007, Malveaux was the moderator of the 31st annual convention of the National Association of Black Journalists
National Association of Black Journalists
The National Association of Black Journalists is an organization of African American journalists, students, and media professionals. Founded in 1975 in Washington, D.C...
and has served on various panels at previous conventions of the NABJ, of which she is a member.
Personal
Malveaux, whose first name is pronounced Sue-zahn, was born in Lansing, MichiganLansing, Michigan
Lansing is the capital of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is located mostly in Ingham County, although small portions of the city extend into Eaton County. The 2010 Census places the city's population at 114,297, making it the fifth largest city in Michigan...
into a New Orleans-based family of African, Spanish
Spanish people
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, and French
French people
The French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...
descent. Her Louisiana French Creole
Louisiana Creole people
Louisiana Creole people refers to those who are descended from the colonial settlers in Louisiana, especially those of French and Spanish descent. The term was first used during colonial times by the settlers to refer to those who were born in the colony, as opposed to those born in the Old World...
father, Floyd J. Malveaux, is a prominent doctor who became the dean
Dean (education)
In academic administration, a dean is a person with significant authority over a specific academic unit, or over a specific area of concern, or both...
of the College of Medicine at Howard University
Howard University
Howard University is a federally chartered, non-profit, private, coeducational, nonsectarian, historically black university located in Washington, D.C., United States...
; he is now the executive director of the Merck
Merck & Co.
Merck & Co., Inc. , also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme or MSD outside the United States and Canada, is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. The Merck headquarters is located in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, an unincorporated area in Readington Township...
Childhood Asthma
Asthma
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Network and a founder of Howard University's National Human Genome
Human genome
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Center. Her mother, the former Myrna Maria Ruiz, is a retired schoolteacher. The economist Julianne Malveaux
Julianne Malveaux
Dr. Julianne Malveaux is the 15th president of Bennett College. She is an African-American economist, author, liberal social and political commentator, and businesswoman. She is well-known for her left-wing political opinions.-Education and career:Malveaux entered Boston College after the 11th...
is a distant cousin.
She has three siblings:
- Suzette M. Malveaux (identical twin with Suzanne and an associate professor at the Columbus School of LawColumbus School of LawThe Columbus School of Law, also known as CUA Law, is the law school of The Catholic University of America, in Washington, D.C..Over 900 Juris Doctor students attend CUA Law. Incoming classes are typically composed of two to three hundred students, including day and night programs. Around 3,500...
, Catholic University of America) - Courtney M. Malveaux (an assistant attorney generalAttorney GeneralIn most common law jurisdictions, the attorney general, or attorney-general, is the main legal advisor to the government, and in some jurisdictions he or she may also have executive responsibility for law enforcement or responsibility for public prosecutions.The term is used to refer to any person...
for the state of VirginiaVirginiaThe Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...
and chairman of the Richmond Republican Committee) - Gregory F. Malveaux (an associate professor of English at Montgomery CollegeMontgomery CollegeMontgomery College is a public, open access community college located in Montgomery County, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C. in the United States. The college has three campuses, the largest of which is in Rockville; the other campuses are in Takoma Park/Silver Spring and Germantown...
).
Her family lived in New Orleans and later Howard County, Maryland
Howard County, Maryland
-2010:Whereas according to the 2010 U.S. Census Bureau:*62.2% White*17.5% Black*0.3% Native American*14.4% Asian*0.0% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander*3.6% Two or more races*2.0% Other races*5.8% Hispanic or Latino -2000:...
, and she attended Centennial High School in Ellicott City, Maryland
Ellicott City, Maryland
Ellicott City is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Howard County, Maryland, United States. It is part of the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area. The population was 65,834 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Howard County...
.
Malveaux graduated from Harvard College
Harvard College
Harvard College, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is one of two schools within Harvard University granting undergraduate degrees...
with an A.B. cum laude in sociology
Sociology
Sociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity...
. At Harvard, she was a classmate with future CNN reporter Soledad O'Brien
Soledad O'Brien
María de la Soledad Teresa O'Brien is an American Broadcast journalist. She is currently the host of the "In America" documentary unit on CNN, and is best known for anchoring the CNN marquee morning newscast American Morning from July 2003 to April 2007, with Miles O'Brien...
. She graduated with a master's degree in broadcasting from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is one of Columbia's graduate and professional schools. It offers three degree programs: Master of Science in journalism , Master of Arts in journalism and a Ph.D. in communications...
in 1991.
Career
Malveaux's first television job was with New England Cable News as a general assignment reporter in Boston, Massachusetts, during 1993–1996. She then moved back to Washington, D.C.Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
, and worked for NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
affiliate WRC-TV
WRC-TV
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during 1996–1999 as a self-described "rock-and-roll" reporter reporting local and crime news.
In 1999 she joined NBC Network News, three years in Washington, including as a Pentagon
The Pentagon
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correspondent, and three years in Chicago. She covered national stories such as Bill Clinton's impeachment
Impeachment of Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton, President of the United States, was impeached by the House of Representatives on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice on December 19, 1998, but acquitted by the Senate on February 12, 1999. Two other impeachment articles, a second perjury charge and a charge of abuse of...
, Elián González
Elián González
The custody and immigration status of a young Cuban boy, Elián González , was at the center of a heated 2000 controversy involving the governments of Cuba and the United States, González's father, Juan Miguel González Quintana, González's other relatives in Miami, Florida, and in Cuba, and Miami's...
, the Kosovo War
Kosovo War
The term Kosovo War or Kosovo conflict was two sequential, and at times parallel, armed conflicts in Kosovo province, then part of FR Yugoslav Republic of Serbia; from early 1998 to 1999, there was an armed conflict initiated by the ethnic Albanian "Kosovo Liberation Army" , who sought independence...
, the 2000 Presidential Election
United States presidential election, 2000
The United States presidential election of 2000 was a contest between Republican candidate George W. Bush, then-governor of Texas and son of former president George H. W. Bush , and Democratic candidate Al Gore, then-Vice President....
, the 9/11 attacks, and the 2001 war in Afghanistan
War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
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.
Since May 2002, she has been a White House correspondent for CNN, based at their Washington, D.C. bureau. She covered the 2008 presidential election cycle from the campaign trail as a member of the network's political team. In advance of the Democratic and Republican national conventions, Malveaux anchored a 90-minute documentary on then-Senator Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...
as part of a two-part series on the 2008 general election presidential candidates. Additionally, she served as a panelist questioning the candidates in the Democratic presidential primary debate in South Carolina sponsored by CNN and the Congressional Black Caucus Institute in January 2008. She also played a key role in CNN's 2004 election coverage and its Emmy-winning 2006 election coverage. Most recently, she has augmented her White House reporting by serving as the primary substitute anchor for The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
Wolf Blitzer
Wolf Isaac Blitzer is an American journalist who has been a CNN reporter since 1990. Blitzer is currently the host of the newscast The Situation Room and was the host of the Sunday talk show Late Edition until it was discontinued on January 11, 2009...
, a two-hour-long program that airs every weekday on CNN.
Ms. Malveaux recently started tweeting on Twitter
Twitter
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, the popular microblogging platform. She has posted tweets from all over the world as she covered President Obama's trips to Europe and throughout Latin America.
Role as a black journalist
As Malveaux said in an interview about her position as an African American journalist “When I think of my grandparents and I think about the time of segregationRacial segregation
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, I think what would they think of their grandchild sitting in that seat, that CNN seat in that small little [White House] briefing room? There [are] only about 20 seats and I’m sitting in one of them. It’s so important that I feel like I’m representing people who couldn’t even imagine that we could be in that kind of position.”
Criticism
2007 Democratic Party debate
On November 16, 2007 while moderating a debate between candidates for the Democratic PartyDemocratic Party (United States)
The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...
presidential nomination, Malveaux modified a question asked by audience member LaShannon Spencer. Spencer asked what qualities the candidates' nominees to the Supreme Court of the United States
Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest court in the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all state and federal courts, and original jurisdiction over a small range of cases...
should possess. Malveaux directed the question to Senator Chris Dodd and further asked him if he would require nominees to support abortion rights. When the question was put to Senator Joe Biden
Joe Biden
Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden, Jr. is the 47th and current Vice President of the United States, serving under President Barack Obama...
he responded "Suzanne's decided. I'm not answering her question. I'm answering the question of the woman who was there, okay?"
Important interviews and presidential-related travel
As White House correspondent, Malveaux has interviewed former presidents George H. W. BushGeorge H. W. Bush
George Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States . He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States , a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence.Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, to...
, Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...
, and George W. Bush
George W. Bush
George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....
, as well as former first lady Laura Bush
Laura Bush
Laura Lane Welch Bush is the wife of the 43rd President of the United States, George W. Bush. She was the First Lady of the United States from January 20, 2001, to January 20, 2009. She has held a love of books and reading since childhood and her life and education have reflected that interest...
. Her coverage of presidential trips overseas has taken her to Europe, the Balkans
Balkans
The Balkans is a geopolitical and cultural region of southeastern Europe...
, Southeast Asia, Africa, Australia, Latin America, and the Middle East.
External links
- CNN - Biography
- "Laura Bush Rebukes Husband on Abstinence Only Requirement" Feminist Daily News Wire, Feminist Majority Foundation July 5, 2007.
- "CNN's Malveaux parroted White House criticism of Pelosi's Syria visit, but ignored GOP-led trip," Media Matters For America, April 2, 2007.
- Malveaux's CNN report about her cousins in New Orleans's 9th Ward and their experiences during Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath