Jo Shelley - Field Producer
Jo Shelley
Field Producer
Jo Shelley is a field producer based in CNN's London bureau.
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Video shows dozens of bodies after alleged attack at UN-run school in Gaza
Nov 19, 2023
A school run by the United Nations in northern Gaza has been hit with apparently devastating impact, the UN confirmed Saturday, in what a top UN official described as a “horrifying” incident.
Doctors race to save newborns as Israel says it’s battling Hamas around Gaza’s largest hospital
Nov 14, 2023
Premature babies at Gaza’s largest hospital are being wrapped in foil and placed next to hot water in a desperate bid to keep them alive in “catastrophic” conditions, the hospital director has warned, as Israeli firepower pounds surrounding streets and remaining fuel reserves dry up, leaving the facility unable to function.
Hamas spokesman among scores detained in occupied West Bank
Oct 20, 2023
A Hamas spokesman is reportedly among more than 60 members of the militant organization detained by Israel in overnight raids across the West Bank, the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territory that is increasingly feeling the impact of the fighting in Gaza.
After the short-lived insurrection, questions swirl over top Russian commander and Prigozhin
Jun 30, 2023
One is known as “General Armageddon,” the other as “Putin’s chef.” Both have a checkered past and a reputation for brutality. One launched the insurrection, the other reportedly knew about it in advance. And right now, both are nowhere to be found.
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich loses appeal against pre-trial detention
Jun 22, 2023
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich lost his appeal against the extension of pre-trial detention in Moscow on Thursday on spying charges, which he denies.
Collapse of Ukraine’s Nova Kakhovka dam an ‘ecological catastrophe’
Jun 7, 2023
The collapse of the Nova Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine has sparked fears of an ecological catastrophe, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky describing the situation as “an environmental bomb of mass destruction.”
Collapse of critical Ukrainian dam sparks region-wide evacuations. Here’s what we know
Jun 6, 2023
A major dam and hydro-electric power plant in Russian-occupied southern Ukraine suffered a collapse early Tuesday, prompting mass evacuations and fears for large-scale devastation as Ukraine accused Moscow’s forces of committing an act of “ecocide.”
Palestinian teen killed, Israeli woman dies of wounds as West Bank violence simmers
Apr 10, 2023
Israeli forces shot and killed a 15-year-old Palestinian boy near the occupied West Bank city of Jericho and an Israeli woman died of wounds sustained in an attack last week, as violence in the region continued to simmer on Monday.
‘Biden ate our chips’: Ireland prepares for a presidential homecoming
Apr 10, 2023
Lauren and Emily Blewitt may have been in preschool at the time, but they were old enough to know that then-Vice President Joe Biden had committed a serious breach of mealtime etiquette. “He was just eating our chips!” Lauren, 10, says – a mixture of delight and outrage crossing her face.
Jordan warns Israel of ‘catastrophic consequences’ if al-Aqsa mosque stormed again
Apr 9, 2023
Jordan has warned of “catastrophic consequences” if Israeli forces were to storm the al-Aqsa mosque again.
In Turkey, a father and daughter are reunited while a teen boy searches for his mom
Feb 18, 2023
After the deadly earthquake there is bliss as a father and daughter are reunited. But hopes are dwindling for more such happy reunions.
Zelensky shakes up Ukrainian government amid growing corruption scandal
Jan 24, 2023
President Volodymyr Zelensky has fired a slew of senior Ukrainian officials amid a growing corruption scandal linked to the procurement of war-time supplies, in the biggest shakeup of his government since Russia’s invasion began.
Leaving his life in Bakhmut had seemed impossible. Now he’s lost a friend, a limb and a livelihood
Dec 12, 2022
The streets outside Vyacheslav Tarasov’s home on Ukraine’s eastern frontline are pocked by shell blasts. The buildings around are mostly empty, windowless and cold.
Inside a Kramatorsk hospital saving the lives of Ukraine’s war wounded
Dec 8, 2022
As the young soldier lies motionless in the machine, a group of doctors huddle over a computer in an adjoining room.
One of Ukraine’s largest hospitals nearly evacuated patients after Russian strikes cut water supply
Nov 26, 2022
One of Ukraine’s largest state hospitals was “on the verge of evacuating” some patients after it lost water supply because of Russian air strikes on Wednesday, a regional official told CNN.
About
Jo Shelley is a field producer based in CNN’s London bureau.
Shelley previously worked at CNN’s Asia Pacific headquarters in Hong Kong where she covered breaking news across the region.
She produced some of the first international news reports from the scene of the tsunami in Palu, Indonesia, and coordinated CNN’s rolling coverage of the Thai cave rescue mission from the field. She reported extensively on the protests in Hong Kong in 2019 and was part of the team that won the RTS Breaking News award for coverage of the storming of Hong Kong’s legislative council.
As a field producer, Shelley has tackled stories in an extensive list of countries including Vietnam, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Pakistan, Turkey, Australia, New Zealand, and Puerto Rico.
Before moving to Hong Kong, Shelley was a Senior Producer for CNN’s Chief International Anchor Christiane Amanpour in London. She began her career in 2009 on the network’s planning desk.
Shelley is a graduate of the Cardiff School of Journalism and the University of York.
