Jill Dougherty is U.S. Affairs Editor for CNN International and is based in Washington, D.C. In this role she is responsible for covering political, cultural and business stories in the United States for CNN’s international network.
Dougherty was previously the managing editor of CNN International Asia Pacific. Based at the network's regional headquarters in Hong Kong, She oversaw the regional news and feature programming produced in Hong Kong and co-ordinated CNN's newsgathering across the Asia Pacific region.
Dougherty, who joined CNN in 1983, was previously CNN's Moscow bureau chief, named to that post in 1997. She has covered many significant news events in Russia and the former Soviet Union for CNN, including the presidencies of Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin, Russia's post-Soviet economic transition, the Beslan school massacre, the conflict in Chechnya, the arrest and trial of Yukos Oil company founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Georgia's Rose Revolution and Ukraine's Orange Revolution.
Before her appointment as Moscow bureau chief, Dougherty was a CNN White House correspondent from 1991-1996. In this position, she reported on presidential activities in the United States and abroad, including election campaigns in 1992, 1996 and 2000. She traveled extensively with Presidents George H. W. Bush and William J. Clinton. She is part of the CNN team that won the American Journalism Review's 1993 Award for Best White House Coverage. On temporary assignments in Moscow, she reported on the 1991 coup, the 1993 attack on the Russian White House and the civil war in the former Soviet Georgia.
Dougherty joined CNN as Midwest correspondent in 1983, working out of CNN's Chicago Bureau. In 1986, she was awarded a Benton Fellowship in broadcast journalism at the University of Chicago.
In addition to her work for CNN, Dougherty has been a correspondent for WMAQ-TV in Chicago and has done freelance assignments for National Public Radio and TIME magazine. She began her career as a broadcaster and writer for Voice of America, U.S.S.R. Division.
Dougherty earned a bachelor's degree in Russian language and literature from the University of Michigan.
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