Rebecca Wright

Senior Field Producer

Rebecca Wright is an award-winning Senior Field Producer for CNN, based at the network's Asia-Pacific headquarters in Hong Kong.
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Coral bleaching in the lagoon of the Great Barrier Reef's Lady Elliot Island, on February 19, 2024.
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Ocean heat is driving a global coral bleaching event, and it could be the worst on record
Apr 15, 2024
At least 54 countries are experiencing mass coral bleaching as the climate crisis drives ocean temperatures to record-breaking levels
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What it’s like on board an outnumbered Philippine ship facing down China’s push to dominate the South China Sea
Mar 6, 2024
China’s push to dominate South China Sea has sparked violent clashes with neighbors in recent years — particularly the Philippines, a mutual defense ally of the US.
Jonathan Dekel-Chen holding photo/poster of his missing son, Sagui Dekel-Chen.
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‘Hope is hard to come by’: In the Red Sea resort of Eilat, Israeli survivors from October 7 face a new threat
Nov 21, 2023
As the red alert alarm sounded in the busy hotel dining hall, many of the children scattered in fear, as the horrors of the Hamas massacre on October 7 came flooding back.
Men walk along the border of Gaza in southern Israel on November 13, 2023.
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Israel shows alleged Hamas ‘armory’ under children’s hospital in Gaza. Local health officials dismiss the claims
Nov 14, 2023
The Israeli military’s focus on hospitals in Gaza is growing more intense with a spokesperson inviting news media to visit a medical center for children on Monday, where he alleged parts of the basement had been a Hamas “command and control center” and may have been used to hold hostages.
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Witness to a massacre: Israeli festival survivor returns to site of Hamas rampage
Nov 4, 2023
Aliza Samuel walks carefully through debris left strewn across the ground, picking up a bracelet before coming across some small clay trinkets that had been handmade during the Nova Music Festival.
Philippine Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro talks during an interview with CNN in Manila, Philippines on September 29, 2023.
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Exclusive: Philippine defense secretary vows to stand up to ‘bully’ China
Sep 29, 2023
China is behaving like a schoolyard bully toward smaller countries, the Philippines defense secretary told CNN Friday during an exclusive interview in which he said his nation had to stand up to Beijing’s territorial expansion in the South China Sea.
Oleksandr Havriluk with some of the Russian anti-tank mines he dug up in his fields using a metal detector.
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Clearing land mines by hand, farmers in Ukraine risk their lives for planting season
Mar 27, 2023
The first time Oleksandr Havriluk returned to his farm after it had been stormed and occupied by Russian troops, tears rolled down his face when he saw what they had left behind.
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‘I killed a man today’: Russian soldier accused of war crimes in absentia after audio files intercepted
Mar 21, 2023
A Russian soldier who allegedly shot a civilian in an extraordinary attack caught on camera by a Ukrainian drone is being accused of war crimes in absentia by the Ukrainian police.
A Mugin-5, a commercial unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) made by a Chinese manufacturer, was seen downed in eastern Ukraine.
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Exclusive: Chinese-made drone, retrofitted and weaponized, downed in eastern Ukraine
Mar 16, 2023
Driving deep into the forest, the hush between the towering pine trees and the clear blue skies was splintered every few seconds by the sound of distant explosions from the frontline battles for eastern Ukraine.
This reproduction of a picture from the Homai Vyarawala's collection shows Indian photographer Homai Vyarawalla in her early years. The picture was published in the book "India In Focus : Camera Chronicles of Homai Vyarawalla" authored by Sabeena Gadihoke. Vyarawalla, 98, died on January 15, 2012 in Vadodara. Vyarawalla photographed the last days of the British Empire and her work traces the birth and growth of a new nation. Vyarawalla was recently conferred Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian honour AFP PHOTO / Sam PANTHAKY (Photo credit should read -/AFP via Getty Images)
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These are the pioneering women of photojournalism
Mar 8, 2023
Photojournalism has traditionally been a male-dominated field.
Kamarnisahan Abdulrahman with three of her children who died in the fire: Shehide, 13, Nehdiye, 5 and Abdurahman, 9.
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‘I hold China accountable’: Uyghur families demand answers over fire that triggered protests
Dec 1, 2022
For more than five years, Sharapat Mohamad Ali and her brother Mohamad had been unable to contact their family in far western China, where the government has been accused of incarcerating up to 2 million Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic minorities in internment camps.
Steven Blesi and his friends on a hiking trip to Jeju.
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‘He was curious about the world’: Friends remember American student killed in Seoul Halloween disaster
Nov 3, 2022
When he arrived in the South Korean city of Seoul in late August, American exchange student Steven Blesi quickly developed a wide circle of friends from around the world.
Editorial use only. HANDOUT /NO SALES Mandatory Credit: Photo by BORNA NEWS AGENCY HANDOUT/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock (13477358a) A grab from a handout video made available by Borna News Agency for Iranian competitive climber Elnaz Rekabi speaking to journalists upon her arrival at the Imam Khomeini International Airport in Tehran, Iran, 19 October 2022. Rekabi returned to Tehran after competing in South Korea without wearing a mandatory headscarf required for Iranian female athletes from the Islamic Republic. Rekabi has described her not wearing a hijab as unintentional act as she was in rush to prepare for competition, and apologized for that. Iranian competitive climber Elnaz Rekabi returns home, Tehran, Iran Islamic Republic Of - 19 Oct 2022
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Iranian rock climber arrives back in Tehran after competing without hijab
Oct 19, 2022
A female Iranian rock climber, who did not wear a hijab at an international competition in South Korea, has returned to Iran as Iranian groups based abroad raised alarms over her fate back home.
Married couple sitting outside Almaty train station with backpacks: computer programmer Sergei, 30 and his wife Irina, 27 (Rebecca Wright/CNN)
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Russian draft dodgers pour into Kazakhstan to escape Putin’s war
Oct 9, 2022
More than 200,000 Russians have streamed into Kazakhstan following Russian President Vladmir Putin’s conscription announcement on September 21, according to the Kazakh government. “We ran away from Russia because we want to live,” says one.
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‘We prayed to be liberated’: Inside a city recaptured by Ukraine after months of Russian occupation
Sep 13, 2022
Burned-out tanks and trucks emblazoned with Russia’s signature ‘Z’ symbol lie at the side of the road in Izium, a city newly recaptured by Ukrainian troops who are driving Russian forces from much of Kharkiv region.
Taken by Bex Wright: Mark Ayres 48, from London Michael Zafar, 34, from Kansas One of Ayres as a Green Jacket aged 19: Credit: Courtesy Mark Ayres
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‘It won’t be quick’: Foreign fighters lend a hand to Ukraine’s battle to retake the south
Sep 7, 2022
On the first day of the counteroffensive in southern Ukraine, Mark Ayres fired more than 2,000 rounds from his Soviet-designed PK machine gun during fierce firefights with Russian forces.

About

Rebecca Wright is an award-winning Senior Field Producer for CNN, based at the network’s Asia-Pacific headquarters in Hong Kong.

She is responsible for producing key stories from the region, and has covered breaking news on the Hong Kong protests and the Thai cave rescue. She also played an instrumental role in the Trump-Kim summit in Singapore, and has produced environmental documentaries on the Great Barrier Reef and the Borneo fires. Wright has also covered the Rohingya crisis extensively, reporting from Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh and Rakhine State in Myanmar.

Before joining CNN in 2012, Wright was a producer for the BBC in London for more than six years working across both television and radio.

Wright has won multiple awards for her work, including a Royal Television Society award for the Hong Kong protest coverage, ContentAsia and Society for News Design awards for the Borneo is Burning special, and two Asia Academy Creative Awards for stories on the Great Barrier Reef and the Sri Lanka terror attacks.

Wright studied English Literature at Newcastle University, where she was News Editor of the student newspaper The Courier. She then joined the BBC news trainee graduate scheme which included a scholarship for a Postgraduate Diploma in Journalism Studies at Cardiff University.