CNN White House Correspondent Claire Shipman joined Wolf Blitzer and Jill Dougherty in October 1994 to report on presidential activities both at home and abroad.
Shipman previously served as a CNN general assignment correspondent. Prior to that, she was the correspondent and producer at CNNs Moscow bureau, covering the former Soviet Union and the tumultuous economic and social upheaval of the past several years.
Shipman won worldwide praise for the October 1993 coverage of Yeltsin's assault on the Russian parliament building. CNN was awarded the National Headliners Award and an Overseas Press Club Award for its coverage of these events. Shipman also reported from Moscow during the aborted Soviet coup and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, for which the network won a Peabody Award. She provided the network with extended live coverage from the Russian White House. In May 1989, Shipman was a principal participant in CNN's coverage of the student uprising in Tiananmen Square, China.
Shipman holds a Masters degree in international affairs from Columbia University and earned a bachelor of arts degree in Russian Studies from Columbia College in New York.