Tori B. Powell - Breaking News Writer, CNN
Tori B. Powell
Breaking News Writer, CNN
Tori B. Powell is a Breaking News Writer at CNN, where she covers live national events.
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![UNDATED FILE PHOTO - File photo of Diego Garcia,largest island in the Chagos archipelago and site of a major United States military base in the middle of the Indian Ocean leased from Britain in 1966. Exiled inhabitants of Diego Garcia began a challenge July 17 to a British government decision to kick them off the remote island 30 years ago to make way for the U.S. base. [Thousands of islanders from the 65-island Chagos archipelago, many of them born in exile in Mauritius, want Britain to return them to their homeland.]](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/2000-07-18t120000z-220889991-pbeahulixci-rtrmadp-3-diego-garcia.jpg?c=16x9&q=h_720,w_1280,c_fill)
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Tori B. Powell is a Breaking News Writer at CNN, where she covers live national events.
Prior to joining CNN, Powell worked as a Breaking News Reporter at CBS News as well as a Digital Content Producer for CBS Mornings. There, she covered live and exclusive events for a national audience and curated Emmy-award-winning digital content. She has work published at an array of publications including the Daily Beast, the Center for Public Integrity, NBC4 Washington, the Kitchn, Shondaland and more.
Powell graduated in 2021 from American University in Washington D.C., where she received her bachelor’s degree in journalism and a concentration in the Spanish language.
