Hadas Gold is a correspondent on CNN’s Media team.

Previously, Gold was CNN’s Jerusalem correspondent. She was the first correspondent at CNN covering the October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks and ensuing war reporting under live rocket fire, for which she and the CNN team were awarded an Emmy Award for Breaking News Coverage as well as an Overseas Press Club award.

During her three years in the region, Gold regularly reported from the scene of the alarming record levels of violence between Israelis and Palestinians, including the 2021 Hamas-Israel war. Gold reported extensively on the rise of new militant groups, Israel’s military raids into the West Bank, and the future of the Palestinian Authority.

Gold also reported widely on the drastic internal political changes happening in Israel, from the unprecedented protest movement against the Israeli government’s judicial overhaul plan and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s historic corruption trial. She also covered Israel’s world-first COVID-19 vaccination campaign, historic visits by Israeli leaders to countries such as Bahrain, as well as then-President Joe Biden’s visit to Israel and the occupied Palestinian Territories in 2022.

Before moving to Jerusalem, Gold covered media, tech, and politics for CNN from London and before that, Washington, D.C., where she was one of the lead reporters on the Trump administration’s historic lawsuit to prevent AT&T from acquiring CNN’s former parent company, Time Warner.

Before joining CNN, Gold spent more than five years at Politico as a media reporter, during which she was named one of the “most influential media reporters” by Mediaite in 2017. In 2011, while a graduate student, she was awarded a fellowship with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, where she reported on trash pickers in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Gold graduated from the George Washington University with a B.A. in journalism and an M.A. in media and public affairs. She is a member of the National Council at the George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs. Follow her at @hadas_gold.