Rebecca Wright is an award-winning Senior Field Producer for CNN, based at the network’s Asia-Pacific headquarters in Hong Kong, where she is responsible for producing breaking news and key stories from the region and beyond.

She has worked in conflict zones including Ukraine and Israel, covered both the Tokyo and Beijing Olympics, and has produced three environmental documentaries, including an hour-long special on Australia for ‘The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper.’

Wright has extensively covered the Myanmar civil war, the Uyghurs in China’s Xinjiang region, and the Rohingya crisis in Bangladesh.

Wright has won multiple awards for her work, including an Emmy, a DuPont and an RTS for coverage of Ukraine, a Gracie award for Afghanistan, an RTS for Hong Kong protest coverage, along with 9 Emmy nominations.

In 2024 she was selected for the Oxford Climate Journalism Network, a remote six-month fellowship with the Reuters Institute at the University of Oxford.

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

Wright studied English Literature at Newcastle University, then joined the BBC News trainee graduate scheme, which included a Postgraduate Diploma in Journalism Studies at Cardiff University.