Meridith Edwards is a multi-award-winning journalist working as Senior Producer for CNN News and Enterprise. From breaking news scoops to producing special events, Edwards has traveled to all 48 contiguous United States plus Hawaii and many countries overseas in her work for CNN.

She is frequently deployed to cover news events from the arrest and booking of Former President Donald Trump in Georgia, to school shootings, natural disasters, and the border migrant crisis. An experienced producer, she quickly and effectively makes relationships with colleagues and sources to score wins for the network, including being the first to obtain the Trump mugshot from Fulton County.

Edwards conceptualizes, plans and live produces parts of CNN’s New Year’s Eve special, one of the highest-rated shows for the network globally each year. She is also called on to spearhead news specials that have focused on social injustice after the murder of George Floyd, the 50th anniversary of the March on Selma and “Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020,” a CNN project that honored graduates in the first COVID-19 summer and featured former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, as well as sports stars like Megan Rapinoe and LeBron James, and the youthful inspiration of Malala Yousafzai.

For “The Voices of Auschwitz,” timed to mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp, Edwards spent months traveling the globe to find and interview survivors. The result was a powerful documentary and online special focusing on the stories of five survivors. Wolf Blitzer hosted the documentary, which also featured an interview with Steven Spielberg.

Edwards ability to authentically connect with people experiencing tragedy earned her a 2024 Emmy for the toxic train spill in East Palestine, Ohio. She is proud of how she scrambled to find survivors, witnesses, and investigators to tell the story of the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, and again the following year for the Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta. Her work for both events helped CNN win News Emmys from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

Edwards began her career at CNN in Washington DC in 1991, moving to the network’s global headquarters in 1992 where she ran a number of editorial operations as well as writing and producing news, investigation, and feature stories for various shows. In 2002, she was a principal in the launch of Tamarkin Productions where she spent a decade producing documentary and non-fiction television programming, including for ESPN: “Winning at Any Cost: The Drug Culture in Sports,” and “Sports Illustrated At 50.” The company also produced a feature-length documentary that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. She returned to CNN in 2009 resuming her responsibilities as a Senior Producer.

In addition to the three National News and Documentary Emmy Awards, Edwards is also a recipient of the National Women’s Political Caucus Exceptional Merit Media Award. She is based in Atlanta, but always ready to travel. Head down, next story.